Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Horace

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Belloc, Hilaire

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

10.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Dryden, John

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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

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

Hook, Sydney

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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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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.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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