Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Gilmore, Gary Mark

Best Quotes about Death

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

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Lowell, James Russell

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Luther, Martin

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

18.

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

Bible

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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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

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Publilius Syrus

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Frost, Robert

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Frida Kahlo

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Barker, Clive

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