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

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

John Scalzi

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

Keats, John

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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

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

10.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

11.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

12.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

13.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

14.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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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.

17.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Lowell, James Russell

20.

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

21.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

22.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

23.

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

24.

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

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

26.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

28.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

29.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

30.

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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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

32.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

33.

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

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

35.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

36.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

37.

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

Fielding, Henry

38.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

39.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

40.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

42.

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

Charles II

43.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

44.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

45.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

48.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

49.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

50.

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