Motivational Quotes

Death

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Death

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Keats, John

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

11.

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

12.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

14.

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

Cocteau, Jean

15.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

16.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

18.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

19.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

22.

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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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

24.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

Sophocles

28.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

29.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

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

John Scalzi

31.

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

Horace

32.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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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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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

35.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

39.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

40.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

41.

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

42.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

43.

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

Eliot, George

45.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

47.

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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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

49.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael