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

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Havner, Vance

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Bright, Grant M.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Eliot, George

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

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

11.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

12.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

13.

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

Montgomery, James

14.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

15.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

16.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

17.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

18.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

19.

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

Bayly, Joseph

20.

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

21.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Palmerston, Lord

26.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

27.

'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

28.

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

Horace

29.

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

30.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

31.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Luther, Martin

34.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

35.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

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

37.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

41.

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

Beaumont, Francis

42.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Ann Radcliffe

49.

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

Charles II

50.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham