Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

- A. Sachs

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bible

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

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

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

Butler, Samuel

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Stephanie Klein

11.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

Milton, John

14.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

18.

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

19.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

23.

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

Matt Frewer

24.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

32.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hamilton, Hugh

34.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

38.

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

William Shakespeare

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

40.

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

Bible

42.

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

Frida Kahlo

43.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

44.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

45.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Epicurus

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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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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell