Motivational Quotes

Death

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Death

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Young, Edward

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Matt Frewer

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

Dickinson, Emily

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Sophocles

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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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

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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.

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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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

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Farber, Dave

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Johnny Carson

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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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

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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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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

39.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Addison, Joseph

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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.