Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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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 may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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

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

Epicurus

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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

23.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Bible

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.