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

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

Craig Volk

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Lowell, James Russell

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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 begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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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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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

John Scalzi

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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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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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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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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Hermes, Georg

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

Cocteau, Jean

39.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

40.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

41.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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 better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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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]

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

47.

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

Pamela Ribon

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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

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

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