Motivational Quotes

Death

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Byron, Lord

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

11.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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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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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

27.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

William Shakespeare

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

37.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

41.

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

Macdonald, George

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Addison, Joseph

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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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

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John