Motivational Quotes

Death

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Death

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Einstein, Albert

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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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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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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Milton, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Havner, Vance

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry