Motivational Quotes

Death

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Hermes, Georg

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Bible

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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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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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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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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

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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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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Plato

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Frost, Robert

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Farber, Dave

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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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