Motivational Quotes

Death

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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.

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

Becht, Ben

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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

11.

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

Plato

12.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

13.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Keats, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

David Assael

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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

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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

26.

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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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

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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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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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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

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

42.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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