Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bayly, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Ken, Thomas

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Plato

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

Montgomery, James

10.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Craig Volk

12.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Keats, John

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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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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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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

30.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Horace

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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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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Nepos, Cornelius

37.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Marvell, Andrew

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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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

44.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Dryden, John

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

Edith Sitwell

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.