Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Publilius Syrus

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

10.

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

Bronte, Emily

11.

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

12.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Bayly, Joseph

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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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

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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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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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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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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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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Becht, Ben

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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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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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

34.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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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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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Hoffer, Eric

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Plato

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

King Jr. Martin Luther