Motivational Quotes

Death

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Manilius, Marcus

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Epicurus

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

11.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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

16.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

18.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

19.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

20.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

21.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Plato

30.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Mann, Thomas

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Becht, Ben

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

38.

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

39.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Ken, Thomas

43.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

44.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

45.

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

46.

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

Bible

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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

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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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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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