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 do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bronte, Emily

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

Auerbach, Red

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Hazlitt, William

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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

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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

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Montgomery, James

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Einstein, Albert

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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.

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Horace

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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