Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Death

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

Donne, John

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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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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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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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

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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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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Allen, Woody

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

Horace

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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