Motivational Quotes

Death

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

- Manilius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Death

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Hazlitt, William

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

10.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

12.

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.

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

16.

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

17.

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

Frida Kahlo

18.

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

Canetti, Elias

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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

20.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

26.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

27.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

28.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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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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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

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

A. Sachs

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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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]

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37.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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

39.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

40.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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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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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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