Motivational Quotes

Death

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

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

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Publilius Syrus

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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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.

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

Milton, John

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Bayly, Joseph

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Horace

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

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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's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

Keats, John

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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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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

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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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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

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

Bacon, Francis

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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