Motivational Quotes

Death

See in what peace a Christian can die.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Horace

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Butler, Samuel

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Milton, John

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

Montgomery, James

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Forster, Edward M.

44.

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

Bible

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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

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

Miller, Joaquin

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye