Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Death

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

Eliot, George

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Dryden, John

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

Euripides

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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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

11.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

12.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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

24.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

A. Sachs

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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

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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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gray, Thomas

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

Plato

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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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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 hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Palmerston, Lord

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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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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 a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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