Motivational Quotes

Death

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

Eliot, George

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Forster, Edward M.

10.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

11.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

John Scalzi

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

28.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

A. Sachs

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

34.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Jefferson, Joseph

44.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Allen, Woody

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Macdonald, George

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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

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

Keats, John