Motivational Quotes

Death

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about Death

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

Allen, Woody

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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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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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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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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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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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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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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]

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Berra, Yogi

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Milton, John

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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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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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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