Motivational Quotes

Death

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

- Mann, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Sophocles

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

Horace

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Fielding, Henry

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

10.

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.

Jarman, Derek

11.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

12.

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

Fielding, Henry

13.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Berra, Yogi

15.

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

Gray, Thomas

16.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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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

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Keats, John

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

26.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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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

30.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

31.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

35.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Woody Allen

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

38.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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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

40.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

41.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

A. Sachs

44.

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

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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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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

48.

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

Gide, Andre

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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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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare