Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Death

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Farber, Dave

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Havner, Vance

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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

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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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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Bright, Grant M.

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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

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

Gray, Thomas

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Young, Edward

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Fromm, Erich

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Canetti, Elias

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