Motivational Quotes

Death

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Death

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

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

Matt Frewer

13.

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

14.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

15.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Montgomery, James

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

20.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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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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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

28.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

29.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

31.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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

Randy K. Milholland

33.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

34.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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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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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Fromm, Erich

40.

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

41.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

42.

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

Carson, Johnny

43.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

45.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.