Motivational Quotes

Death

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Butler, Samuel

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

10.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

11.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

12.

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

Thrale, Hester i

13.

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

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

Bayly, Joseph

16.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

17.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

18.

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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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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

21.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

22.

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

23.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

24.

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

Woody Allen

25.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

26.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

28.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

29.

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

Frost, Robert

30.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

31.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

35.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Fielding, Henry

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

40.

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

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

43.

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

Bacon, Francis

44.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

45.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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

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

Bronte, Emily

48.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

49.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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