Motivational Quotes

Death

See in what peace a Christian can die.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Horace

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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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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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Mann, Thomas

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

Ken, Thomas

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily