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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Sophocles

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

13.

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

Einstein, Albert

14.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

15.

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.

16.

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

Bayly, Joseph

17.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

18.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

20.

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

Auden, W. H.

21.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

22.

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

Montgomery, James

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

Bryant, William C.

24.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

26.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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

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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

30.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

33.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

34.

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

Hazlitt, William

35.

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

36.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

37.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

38.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

39.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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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

44.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

45.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

46.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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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

48.

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

Bright, Grant M.

49.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

50.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.