Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Ken, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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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.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Farber, Dave

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Luther, Martin

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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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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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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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I am not the least afraid to die.