Motivational Quotes

Death

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

- Montgomery, James

Best Quotes about Death

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

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

Fielding, Henry

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Nepos, Cornelius

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

11.

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

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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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Bible

15.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

16.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

17.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

19.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

20.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

21.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

22.

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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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

24.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

25.

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

26.

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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

29.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

30.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

31.

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

32.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

33.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

34.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

35.

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

36.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

37.

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

Frida Kahlo

38.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

39.

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

Canetti, Elias

40.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

42.

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.

43.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

Bayly, Joseph

45.

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

Beaumont, Francis

46.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

49.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg