Motivational Quotes

Death

Only the young die good.

- Herford, Oliver

Best Quotes about Death

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Plato

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

10.

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

11.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ken, Thomas

14.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Publilius Syrus

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Forster, Edward M.

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

27.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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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

30.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

32.

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

Darrow, Clarence

33.

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

Auerbach, Red

34.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

35.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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 death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

40.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Byron, Lord

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

Matt Frewer

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas