Motivational Quotes

Death

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Death

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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

Eliot, George

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

10.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

12.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

14.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

15.

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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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

18.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

19.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

21.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

24.

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

Frost, Robert

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.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

27.

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

Craig Volk

28.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

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.

32.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

Hermes, Georg

34.

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

Fromm, Erich

35.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

36.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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

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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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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

40.

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

Bayly, Joseph

41.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

42.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

43.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

44.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Hazlitt, William

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

48.

To die is landing on some distant shore.