Motivational Quotes

Death

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Barker, Clive

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

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

Diderot, Denis

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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.

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

Craig Volk

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Keats, John

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

Bronte, Emily

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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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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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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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

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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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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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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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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

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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.

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs