Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Lee, Nathaniel

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

11.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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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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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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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

37.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia