Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

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

Frost, Robert

11.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

12.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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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.

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

17.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Berra, Yogi

24.

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

25.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Marvell, Andrew

27.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

28.

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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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

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

Milton, John

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

32.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Lee, Nathaniel

34.

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

35.

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

Eliot, George

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

39.

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

David Assael

40.

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

Craig Volk

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

Horace

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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