Motivational Quotes

Death

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Donne, John

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hook, Sydney

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Picabia, Francis

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bronte, Emily

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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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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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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

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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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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

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Plato

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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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Dyer, Wayne

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Epicurus

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Charles II

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Dryden, John

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

Horace

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh