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

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Aaron McGruder

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

Hamilton, Hugh

10.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

12.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

13.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

14.

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

Dryden, John

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

Craig Volk

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

Nepos, Cornelius

18.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

19.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

20.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

21.

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.

22.

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]

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Horace

25.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

27.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Byron, Lord

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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.

30.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

31.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

34.

'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

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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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

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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

40.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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]

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43.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.