Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Death

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Plato

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

Ken, Thomas

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Cocteau, Jean

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.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Bright, Grant M.

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Craig Volk

12.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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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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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Epicurus

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

20.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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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

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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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]

Bible

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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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.

26.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

28.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

30.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

31.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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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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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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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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'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