Motivational Quotes

Death

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

- Charles II

Best Quotes about Death

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Franklin, Benjamin

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

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

Bible

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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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

15.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

18.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

19.

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

Johnny Carson

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Craig Volk

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

25.

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

Forster, Edward M.

27.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Ann Radcliffe

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Milton, John

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

33.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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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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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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

42.

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

Macdonald, George

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.