Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Stephanie Klein

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Hamilton, Hugh

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Allen, Woody

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Hazlitt, William

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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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

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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

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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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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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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

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

A. Sachs

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Allen, Woody

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Bagnold, Enid