Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Craig Volk

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

11.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

12.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

43.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

46.

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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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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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