Motivational Quotes

Death

To stop sinning suddenly.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Death

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Addison, Joseph

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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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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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Stephanie Klein

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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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 as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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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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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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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Horace

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Plato

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

Macdonald, George

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

A. Sachs

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

William Shakespeare

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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

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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]

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