Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

- Bayly, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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]

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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

Haracourt, Edmond

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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

Montgomery, James

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sophocles

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Dyer, Wayne

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Ann Radcliffe

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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

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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

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bhagavad Gita

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Gray, Thomas

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.