Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

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

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Luther, Martin

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Keats, John

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Sophocles

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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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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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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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

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Farber, Dave