Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Horace

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

11.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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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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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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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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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Greene, Graham

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

Euripides

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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Farber, Dave

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

Ken, Thomas

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

Carson, Johnny

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Bronte, Emily

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich