Motivational Quotes

Death

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Death

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Craig Volk

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Frost, Robert

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

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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

11.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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'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

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

Fromm, Erich

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

David Assael

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Fielding, Henry

21.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

24.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

28.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

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

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bryant, William C.

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Horace

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Randy K. Milholland

46.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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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.