Motivational Quotes

Death

'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

Best Quotes about Death

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Barker, Clive

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Horace

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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

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

Horace

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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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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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Milton, John

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

Gray, Thomas

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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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 only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Pamela Ribon

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Young, Edward

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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

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

Macdonald, George

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Allen, Woody

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]