Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

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

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Bronte, Emily

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Horace

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

A. Sachs

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Aaron McGruder

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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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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

28.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Thrale, Hester i

30.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Bible

32.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

33.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

34.

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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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

42.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

43.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Luther, Martin

47.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard