Motivational Quotes

Death

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Death

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

Eliot, George

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Euripides

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Keats, John

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Fielding, Henry

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Woody Allen

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

Camus, Albert

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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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

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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I am not the least afraid to die.