Motivational Quotes

Death

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Best Quotes about Death

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

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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.

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

Auden, W. H.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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]

Bible

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

Ann Radcliffe

11.

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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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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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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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Beaumont, Francis

24.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

27.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

28.

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

George Burns

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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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

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Woody Allen

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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 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

39.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

40.

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

Woody Allen

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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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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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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

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