Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Ken, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Eliot, George

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

Plato

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Epicurus

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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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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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

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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 never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Camus, Albert

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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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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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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.