Motivational Quotes

Death

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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 the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

W. Somerset Maugham

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Dryden, John

10.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

11.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

12.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

14.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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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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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

19.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

20.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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

22.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

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

Havner, Vance

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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

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

Horace

30.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Farber, Dave

33.

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

Luther, Martin

34.

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

35.

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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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

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

Keats, John

38.

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

39.

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

Hoffer, Eric

40.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

42.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

43.

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

Montgomery, James

44.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

46.

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.

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

49.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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