Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

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

Gide, Andre

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

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

William Shakespeare

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

11.

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

Becht, Ben

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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Butler, Samuel

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

18.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Moody, Dwight L.

21.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

28.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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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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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Woody Allen

34.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Beaumont, Francis

38.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

David Assael

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

Bayly, Joseph

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Woody Allen

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo