Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Matt Frewer

Best Quotes about Death

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sophocles

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bayly, Joseph

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

John Scalzi

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

Matt Frewer

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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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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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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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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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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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

Horace

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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 killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Oscar Wilde

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

43.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.