Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

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

Bacon, Francis

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

10.

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

11.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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.

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

Euripides

26.

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

Publilius Syrus

27.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Butler, Samuel

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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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

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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

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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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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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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