Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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.

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Beaumont, Francis

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

11.

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

Bryant, William C.

12.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

18.

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

Euripides

19.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

20.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

21.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

22.

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

Cocteau, Jean

23.

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

Woody Allen

24.

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

Lowell, James Russell

25.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

26.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

31.

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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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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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

34.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

35.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

36.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Fromm, Erich

38.

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.

39.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

40.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

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

42.

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

Auden, W. H.

43.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

44.

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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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

46.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

47.

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

Palmerston, Lord

48.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

49.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.