Motivational Quotes

Death

An evil life is a kind of death.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Butler, Samuel

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Matt Frewer

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Horace

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Forster, Edward M.

23.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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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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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Macdonald, George

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

34.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

37.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel