Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lucan, F. L.

Best Quotes about Death

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

John Scalzi

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

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

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Bryant, William C.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Montgomery, James

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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.

16.

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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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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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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

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

24.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Greene, Graham

36.

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.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

38.

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

Macdonald, George

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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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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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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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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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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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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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

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.