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

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

David Assael

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Sophocles

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

11.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

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

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

Epicurus

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

Publilius Syrus

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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 death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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]

Bible

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Horace

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Epictetus

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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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

46.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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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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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott