Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

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

William Shakespeare

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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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

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

Mann, Thomas

20.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Picabia, Francis

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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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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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

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dryden, John

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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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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?