Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Lee, Nathaniel

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Sophocles

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

10.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

11.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

13.

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Cocteau, Jean

18.

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

Woody Allen

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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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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

Berra, Yogi

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Horace

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

27.

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

Allen, Woody

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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

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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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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Fromm, Erich

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

40.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Craig Volk

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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