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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Camus, Albert

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.

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

Woody Allen

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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

10.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

11.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

12.

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

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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

14.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

15.

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

16.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

18.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

19.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

23.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Epicurus

27.

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

Plato

29.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

30.

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

Palmerston, Lord

31.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lowell, James Russell

33.

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

34.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

35.

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

Foster, John W.

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

39.

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.

40.

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

Bible

41.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

42.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

43.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

44.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.