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

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

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

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

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Lowell, James Russell

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Plato

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Horace

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Becht, Ben

18.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

19.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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.

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Hazlitt, William

32.

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

Montgomery, James

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Beaumont, Francis

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Oscar Wilde

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

A. Sachs

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Dryden, John

46.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Bayly, Joseph

48.

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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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De