Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Death

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Frost, Robert

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

11.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

12.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Bacon, Francis

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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

18.

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

Euripides

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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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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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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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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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

Publilius Syrus

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

32.

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

Bronte, Emily

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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

35.

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

Berra, Yogi

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

David Assael

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sophocles

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Craig Volk

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

49.

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

Woody Allen

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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.