Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Death

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Keats, John

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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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

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Gide, Andre

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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 dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

Dryden, John

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