Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hermes, Georg

Best Quotes about Death

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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.

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

Macdonald, George

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Moody, Dwight L.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

10.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

11.

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

Camus, Albert

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

16.

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

Euripides

17.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

19.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

20.

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

Farber, Dave

21.

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

22.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

24.

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

Luther, Martin

25.

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

26.

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

Bible

28.

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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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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

32.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

33.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

Marvell, Andrew

35.

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

Horace

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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.

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

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

40.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

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

Eliot, George

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

Ken, Thomas

45.

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

Woody Allen

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

Publilius Syrus

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho