Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Eliot, George

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

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Mann, Thomas

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

12.

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

13.

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

Keats, John

14.

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

15.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bronte, Emily

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

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

Ann Radcliffe

20.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

21.

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

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

24.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bertolt Brecht

29.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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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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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Bayly, Joseph

33.

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

34.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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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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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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.

42.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

45.

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

Dryden, John

46.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Only the young die good.