Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Haracourt, Edmond

Best Quotes about Death

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Milton, John

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

Bible

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

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Picabia, Francis

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

10.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

11.

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

Dryden, John

12.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

14.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

15.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

19.

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

Johnny Carson

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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

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

25.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

27.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

28.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

30.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

31.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, 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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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

39.

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

Eliot, George

40.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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

42.

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

Keats, John

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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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]

Bible

47.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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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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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek