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

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dryden, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Kocher, Gerhard

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

Ken, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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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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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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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

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

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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

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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

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

Keats, John

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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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

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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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

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

Montgomery, James

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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.

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag