Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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

Kocher, Gerhard

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Hermes, Georg

10.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

11.

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

Bright, Grant M.

12.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

14.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

17.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

18.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

19.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

20.

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

Butler, Samuel

21.

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

Randy K. Milholland

22.

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

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Keats, John

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

27.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

30.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

33.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Eliot, George

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

Eliot, George

38.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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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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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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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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

46.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?