Motivational Quotes

Death

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

- Bryant, William C.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Milton, John

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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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 grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Bible

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

Bible

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Lowell, James Russell

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Montgomery, James

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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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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Horace

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William