Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

William Shakespeare

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

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

Montgomery, James

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

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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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Euripides

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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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

28.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

29.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

30.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

31.

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

Carson, Johnny

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

Ann Radcliffe

35.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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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

38.

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

Foster, John W.

39.

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]

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

Bacon, Francis

41.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Hoffer, Eric

44.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

45.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Craig Volk

49.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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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]

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