Motivational Quotes

Death

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

- Bronte, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Bagnold, Enid

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Plato

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

William Shakespeare

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Milton, John

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Woody Allen

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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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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

18.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

24.

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

Eliot, George

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Bayly, Joseph

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

43.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Beaumont, Francis

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell