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

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

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Beaumont, Francis

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Heidegger, Martin

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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

Horace

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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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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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

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Horace

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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'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

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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

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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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.

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Woody Allen