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

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

Aaron McGruder

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Milton, John

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Gray, Thomas

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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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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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Craig Volk

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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'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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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