Motivational Quotes

Death

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Publilius Syrus

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Epicurus

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Foster, John W.

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

Ken, Thomas

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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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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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs