Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hook, Sydney

Best Quotes about Death

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

David Assael

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

Foster, John W.

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hook, Sydney

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Matt Frewer

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

William Shakespeare

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Donne, John

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

Montgomery, James

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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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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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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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

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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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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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

George Burns

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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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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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