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

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Bible

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Barker, Clive

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

14.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

15.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

19.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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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

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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

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

31.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

32.

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

Woody Allen

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

Plato

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

35.

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

Keats, John

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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

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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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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.

39.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

40.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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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

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

Butler, Samuel

44.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

45.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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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

48.

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

Leonardo da Vinci