Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Dryden, John

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

12.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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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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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lee, Nathaniel

30.

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

Pamela Ribon

31.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

32.

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.

33.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Sophocles

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

Oscar Wilde

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

41.

'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

42.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?