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

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

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Horace

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

Bryant, William C.

10.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

11.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

12.

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

Allen, Woody

13.

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

Duffecy, James

14.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

16.

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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

18.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

19.

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

Fielding, Henry

20.

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

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

23.

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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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

25.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

26.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

27.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

28.

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

Publilius Syrus

29.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

30.

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

Thrale, Hester i

31.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

32.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

33.

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

34.

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

35.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

37.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

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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

40.

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.

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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

42.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

43.

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

Horace

44.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Eliot, George

48.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

50.

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

Camus, Albert