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

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

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

Bhagavad Gita

12.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

13.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

14.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Dryden, John

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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

22.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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

25.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

26.

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

27.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

28.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

29.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

30.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

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

Camus, Albert

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Forster, Edward M.

38.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

40.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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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

42.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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