Motivational Quotes

Death

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Death

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Dryden, John

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Publilius Syrus

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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

15.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

William Shakespeare

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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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

25.

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

Woody Allen

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

Johnny Carson

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Bible

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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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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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 doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Gide, Andre

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

William Shakespeare

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

A. Sachs