Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Publilius Syrus

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

John Scalzi

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Gide, Andre

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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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

William Shakespeare

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

William Shakespeare

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

William Shakespeare

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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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

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Dickinson, Emily

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Lee, Nathaniel

34.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Pamela Ribon

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

45.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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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