Motivational Quotes

Death

To awake from death is to die in peace.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Frida Kahlo

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Camus, Albert

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

Picabia, Francis

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

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

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

Edith Sitwell

13.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

16.

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

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

19.

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

Auerbach, Red

20.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

21.

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

Ken, Thomas

23.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Horace

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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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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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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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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

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Gray, Thomas

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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

40.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

41.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

45.

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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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