Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

- Miller, Joaquin

Best Quotes about Death

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Canetti, Elias

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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

Woody Allen

11.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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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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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Donne, John

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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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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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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

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Horace

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.