Motivational Quotes

Death

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

- Berger, John

Best Quotes about Death

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

'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

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Eliot, George

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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

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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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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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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Berra, Yogi

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

William Shakespeare

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

Foster, John W.

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Craig Volk

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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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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.