Motivational Quotes

Death

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Death

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

Einstein, Albert

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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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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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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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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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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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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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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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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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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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

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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 is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.