Motivational Quotes

Death

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Death

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

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

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

Hoffer, Eric

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Butler, Samuel

10.

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

Dryden, John

11.

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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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

13.

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

Montgomery, James

14.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

15.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

16.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

17.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

18.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

20.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Horace

24.

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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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

26.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

28.

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

Bagnold, Enid

29.

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

Byron, Lord

30.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Ann Radcliffe

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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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

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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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

40.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

41.

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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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

43.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Pamela Ribon

46.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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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

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

49.

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

Frida Kahlo

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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