Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lee, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Death

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Plato

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Gide, Andre

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

11.

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

Macdonald, George

12.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Young, Edward

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Manilius, Marcus

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

31.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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 a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thrale, Hester i

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Publilius Syrus

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Eliot, George

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