Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Death

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Hubbard, Kin

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Bible

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

10.

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

11.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

12.

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

13.

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

Milton, John

14.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Luther, Martin

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

18.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

19.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hoffer, Eric

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Bryant, William C.

25.

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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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

31.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

Woody Allen

33.

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

34.

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

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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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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

38.

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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Auden, W. H.

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Young, Edward

45.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

46.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.