Motivational Quotes

Death

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Becht, Ben

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.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Beaumont, Francis

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

12.

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Horace

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

22.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Marvell, Andrew

32.

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

Euripides

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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]

Bible

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Berra, Yogi

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

44.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Butler, Samuel

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