Motivational Quotes

Death

To awake from death is to die in peace.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

Euripides

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Publilius Syrus

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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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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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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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 the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Mann, Thomas

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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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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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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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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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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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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.