Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Death

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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

Havner, Vance

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Woody Allen

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

Young, Edward

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Dryden, John

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Frida Kahlo

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Publilius Syrus

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Bronte, Emily

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah