Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Macdonald, George

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

10.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

11.

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

12.

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

Plato

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Bryant, William C.

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Eliot, George

21.

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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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Frida Kahlo

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

32.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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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

34.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

35.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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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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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Epicurus

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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