Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

Matt Frewer

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.

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

Craig Volk

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

Beaumont, Francis

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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]

Bible

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Auerbach, Red

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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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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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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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Palmerston, Lord

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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

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

37.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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 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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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Dryden, John

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

Woody Allen

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Manilius, Marcus

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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