Motivational Quotes

Death

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

- David Assael

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hermes, Georg

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Pamela Ribon

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

12.

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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bronte, Emily

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

16.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

18.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

28.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

30.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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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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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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Forster, Edward M.

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.