Motivational Quotes

Death

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

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

Euripides

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Keats, John

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Beaumont, Francis

15.

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 world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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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

19.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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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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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Randy K. Milholland

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bible

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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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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]

Bible

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak