Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Death

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Bacon, Francis

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

A. Sachs

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Plato

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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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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Euripides

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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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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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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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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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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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]

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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

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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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