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

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Horace

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Pamela Ribon

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Milton, John

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

Manilius, Marcus

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

12.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

13.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

14.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

15.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

16.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Woody Allen

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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

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

25.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

Samuel Goldwyn

28.

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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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

30.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

31.

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

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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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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

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Matt Frewer

37.

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Montgomery, James

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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

47.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

48.

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

Luther, Martin

49.

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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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.