Motivational Quotes

Death

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

- Beaumont, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

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

Horace

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

Bible

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

David Assael

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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'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

11.

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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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

17.

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

Farber, Dave

18.

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

Edith Sitwell

19.

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

Ken, Thomas

21.

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

Keats, John

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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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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

28.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

30.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Frost, Robert

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

33.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

34.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

36.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

43.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

44.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

45.

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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.