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

Hermes, Georg

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

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Landor, Walter Savage

13.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Ken, Thomas

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Bible

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

William Shakespeare

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

Pamela Ribon

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Johnny Carson

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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

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.