Motivational Quotes

Death

An evil life is a kind of death.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Death

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Miller, Joaquin

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Havner, Vance

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

10.

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

Auden, W. H.

11.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

12.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

16.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Johnny Carson

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Palmerston, Lord

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

35.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

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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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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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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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Gide, Andre

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

Craig Volk

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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