Motivational Quotes

Death

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Death

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

'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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Ken, Thomas

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

10.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

11.

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

Camus, Albert

12.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

13.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

14.

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

15.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

16.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

17.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

19.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

20.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

21.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

22.

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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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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

25.

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

Craig Volk

26.

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

Butler, Samuel

27.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

28.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Bible

30.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

31.

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

Randy K. Milholland

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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.

38.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

41.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

42.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

43.

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

Horace

44.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

47.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

48.

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

David Assael

49.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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