Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hamilton, Hugh

Best Quotes about Death

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

Frida Kahlo

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

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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Fielding, Henry

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Eliot, George

10.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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12.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

13.

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

Publilius Syrus

14.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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17.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

19.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

20.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

21.

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

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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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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Miller, Joaquin

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

27.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

28.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

29.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

30.

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

31.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

32.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

33.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

37.

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

Dickinson, Emily

38.

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

Einstein, Albert

39.

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

Epicurus

40.

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

41.

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

Keats, John

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

Luther, Martin

44.

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

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

John Scalzi

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

48.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark