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

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

Farber, Dave

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ann Radcliffe

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

12.

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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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Woody Allen

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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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]

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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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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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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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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.