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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Euripides

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Marvell, Andrew

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

11.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

12.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

14.

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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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

Eliot, George

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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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.

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Dryden, John

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

Plato

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

Montgomery, James

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

28.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

30.

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

Becht, Ben

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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]

Bible

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

36.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

42.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Woody Allen

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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.

49.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein