Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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

11.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

12.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

13.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

14.

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

15.

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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16.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Milton, John

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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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22.

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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23.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

24.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

25.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

26.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

27.

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

Ken, Thomas

28.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

29.

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

Eliot, George

30.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

31.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

32.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

33.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

34.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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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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

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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

38.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

39.

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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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

42.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

43.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

46.

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

Plato

47.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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