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

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

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

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

Randy K. Milholland

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Luther, Martin

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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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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

Eliot, George

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, 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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

32.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Bible

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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.

37.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Horace

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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