Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Death

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Bible

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Bayly, Joseph

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.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

10.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

11.

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

Milton, John

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

13.

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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Foster, John W.

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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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.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Becht, Ben

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Montgomery, James

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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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]

Bible

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus