Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Macdonald, George

Best Quotes about Death

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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

Donne, John

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

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

Gide, Andre

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

Luther, Martin

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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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

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Horace

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Thrale, Hester i

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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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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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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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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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Horace

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

Canetti, Elias

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bryant, William C.

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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

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Macdonald, George

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Greene, Graham

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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