Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hermes, Georg

Best Quotes about Death

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Fielding, Henry

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Hamilton, Hugh

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Eliot, George

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

11.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

12.

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

Diderot, Denis

13.

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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

18.

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

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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

Johnny Carson

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Randy K. Milholland

28.

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

Farber, Dave

29.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

30.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

31.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

32.

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

Bayly, Joseph

33.

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

John Scalzi

34.

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

Pamela Ribon

35.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bible

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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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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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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