Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

10.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

11.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

12.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

13.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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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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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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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

18.

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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

20.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

21.

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

22.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

23.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

24.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

25.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

26.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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

28.

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

Euripides

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

32.

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

Barker, Clive

33.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

34.

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

Dryden, John

35.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Publilius Syrus

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Bible

41.

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

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

45.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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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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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Picabia, Francis

49.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.