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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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

Gide, Andre

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

Craig Volk

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Plato

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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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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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

A. Sachs

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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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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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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Woody Allen

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

Allen, Woody

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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