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

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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

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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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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Berra, Yogi

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Forster, Edward M.

31.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

32.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Luther, Martin

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

45.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis