Motivational Quotes

Death

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Death

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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.

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

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.

Epicurus

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

10.

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

Bright, Grant M.

11.

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

Bible

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Montgomery, James

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

22.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

25.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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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

31.

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

Greene, Graham

32.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

34.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

35.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

36.

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.

37.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

43.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Marvell, Andrew

49.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte