Motivational Quotes

Death

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Eliot, George

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

William Shakespeare

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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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 belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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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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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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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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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

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Canetti, Elias

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Publilius Syrus

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Plato

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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