Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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

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

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Barker, Clive

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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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

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

Butler, Samuel

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Publilius Syrus

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

18.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Allen, Woody

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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

28.

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Craig Volk

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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 was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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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]

Bible

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Fielding, Henry

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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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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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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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George