Motivational Quotes

Death

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Death

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

Keats, John

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

Butler, Samuel

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

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Macdonald, George

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Craig Volk

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

Diderot, Denis

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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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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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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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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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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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

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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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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

Bayly, Joseph

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

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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

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It is natural to die as to be born.