Motivational Quotes

Death

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

- Bayly, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

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

Charles II

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Hamilton, Hugh

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Thrale, Hester i

'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

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Eliot, George

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

Eliot, George

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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

Farber, Dave

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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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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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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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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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Hook, Sydney

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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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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Keats, John

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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