Motivational Quotes

Death

An evil life is a kind of death.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Death

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Craig Volk

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

Franklin, Benjamin

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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 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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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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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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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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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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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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Horace

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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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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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 is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Bryant, William C.

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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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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