Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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 left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

10.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

21.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

23.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

25.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

31.

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

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

33.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

37.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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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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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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Fielding, Henry