Motivational Quotes

Death

To die is landing on some distant shore.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

William Shakespeare

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Eliot, George

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

A. Sachs

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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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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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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 world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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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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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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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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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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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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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

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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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Horace

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Manilius, Marcus

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Foster, John W.