Motivational Quotes

Death

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

David Assael

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Woody Allen

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

Montgomery, James

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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

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

Havner, Vance

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

Picabia, Francis

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Fielding, Henry

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

37.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Carson, Johnny

39.

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

Mann, Thomas

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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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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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.