Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Auerbach, Red

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Matt Frewer

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

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Epictetus

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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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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

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