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

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dickinson, Emily

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

William Shakespeare

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

Keats, John

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

10.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Barker, Clive

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Hermes, Georg

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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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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Epicurus

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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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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

22.

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

Bible

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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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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Picabia, Francis

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

Farber, Dave

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Milton, John

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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 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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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Eliot, George

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Hook, Sydney

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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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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De