Motivational Quotes

Death

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

- Jefferson, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Sophocles

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Keats, John

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

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

Forster, Edward M.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Horace

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Manilius, Marcus

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bronte, Emily

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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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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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]

Bible

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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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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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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Hook, Sydney

48.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

Pamela Ribon

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The fear of death is worse than death.