Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb