Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Death

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

Macarthur, Douglas

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bronte, Emily

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Eliot, George

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Leonardo da Vinci

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

10.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

11.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

13.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

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

A. Sachs

15.

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

16.

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

Forster, Edward M.

17.

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

18.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

19.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

20.

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

Lowell, James Russell

21.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

22.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

23.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

24.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

25.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

26.

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

Gray, Thomas

27.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

28.

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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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

30.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

John Scalzi

32.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

33.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

34.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

35.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Lee, Nathaniel

37.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

38.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

39.

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

40.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

41.

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

Marvell, Andrew

42.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

44.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

45.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

48.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James