Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

- Bayly, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Montgomery, James

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

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

Dryden, John

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Havner, Vance

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.

10.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

11.

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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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Carson, Johnny

14.

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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Donne, John

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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

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Bagnold, Enid

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Eliot, George

29.

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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Auerbach, Red

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Horace

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Miller, Joaquin

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

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

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Montesquieu, Charles De