Motivational Quotes

Death

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Death

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

Craig Volk

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Montgomery, James

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.

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

10.

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

Macdonald, George

11.

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

Hoffer, Eric

12.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

13.

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

Epictetus

14.

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

Charles II

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

Plato

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

21.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Young, Edward

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

26.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

27.

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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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

29.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

30.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

31.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

32.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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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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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

A. Sachs

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

45.

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

Edith Sitwell

46.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red