Motivational Quotes

Death

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

- Beaumont, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

10.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Keats, John

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

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

Keats, John

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

24.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

A. Sachs

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

36.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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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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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson