Motivational Quotes

Death

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Horace

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

Diderot, Denis

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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.

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

Bryant, William C.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Bagnold, Enid

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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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

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Foster, John W.

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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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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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.

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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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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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Montgomery, James

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.