Motivational Quotes

Death

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

- Healey, Thomas F.

Best Quotes about Death

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Chandler, Raymond

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

Craig Volk

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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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

16.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

17.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

18.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

19.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

20.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

21.

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

Eliot, George

22.

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

23.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

24.

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

25.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

26.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

27.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

28.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

29.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

30.

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

Plato

31.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

32.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

33.

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

34.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

35.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

36.

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

Bright, Grant M.

37.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

38.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

39.

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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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

43.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

44.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

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

46.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

47.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

48.

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

Thrale, Hester i

49.

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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz