Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Young, Edward

Best Quotes about Death

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Camus, Albert

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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?

Hallaj

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

Hook, Sydney

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

10.

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

George Burns

11.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

16.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

17.

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

18.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

19.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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'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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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Nepos, Cornelius

25.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

William Shakespeare

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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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

30.

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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

33.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

34.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

38.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Camus, Albert

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Frida Kahlo

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich