Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

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

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

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Woody Allen

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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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'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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Foster, John W.

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

Bible

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

A. Sachs

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Auden, W. H.

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk