Motivational Quotes

Death

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

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

Luther, Martin

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Durrell, Lawrence

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Johnny Carson

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

William Shakespeare

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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

Dickinson, Emily

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Horace

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

Becht, Ben

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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