Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

W. Somerset Maugham

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Kocher, Gerhard

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Randy K. Milholland

10.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

11.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S�ren

13.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

15.

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

Gray, Thomas

18.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

19.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

21.

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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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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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.

26.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

30.

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

Carson, Johnny

31.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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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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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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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

35.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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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40.

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

41.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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]

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46.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

47.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

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