Motivational Quotes

Death

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Stephanie Klein

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

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]

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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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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Milton, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Havner, Vance

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

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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

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Farber, Dave

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

Plato

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Frost, Robert

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Keats, John

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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]

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