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

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Euripides

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Haracourt, Edmond

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

10.

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

11.

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

Bhagavad Gita

12.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

13.

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 cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

23.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

William Shakespeare

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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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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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

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

Fromm, Erich

31.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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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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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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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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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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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

42.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

43.

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

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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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 golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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.