Motivational Quotes

Death

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

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.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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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.

Chandler, Raymond

21.

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

22.

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

Craig Volk

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

Woody Allen

25.

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

26.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Ann Radcliffe

29.

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

Edith Sitwell

30.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

31.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

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32.

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

Milton, John

33.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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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]

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35.

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

Fromm, Erich

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

41.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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46.

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

Fielding, Henry

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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 really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

49.

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

Eliot, George

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston