Motivational Quotes

Death

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

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

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Publilius Syrus

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Horace

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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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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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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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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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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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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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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

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Horace

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare