Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Gray, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

'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

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

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]

Bible

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

11.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

12.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

14.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Camus, Albert

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

18.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

19.

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

Plato

20.

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

Fielding, Henry

21.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

22.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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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

24.

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

Keats, John

25.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

26.

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

Horace

28.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

29.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

34.

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

35.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

36.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

37.

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

Eliot, George

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

40.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

43.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

44.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

45.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bright, Grant M.