Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Matt Frewer

Best Quotes about Death

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dickinson, Emily

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

Fromm, Erich

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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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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 person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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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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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Euripides

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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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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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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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.

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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

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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