Motivational Quotes

Death

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Death

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Stephanie Klein

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

10.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

11.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

12.

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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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

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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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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 eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Sophocles

18.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

19.

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

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

Fielding, Henry

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

25.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

26.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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'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

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

William Shakespeare

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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