Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Macdonald, George

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

10.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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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]

Bible

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

19.

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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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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 but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Frida Kahlo

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

27.

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

Bryant, William C.

28.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

A. Sachs

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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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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

40.

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.

41.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

45.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

46.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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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.

48.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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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