Motivational Quotes

Death

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Death

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

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

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Camus, Albert

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hoffer, Eric

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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 is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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

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

Woody Allen

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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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

31.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Luther, Martin

42.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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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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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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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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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]

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