Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lee, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Milton, John

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

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

Aaron McGruder

12.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Luther, Martin

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bright, Grant M.

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Charles II

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

Bayly, 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

25.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

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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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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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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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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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]

Bible

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Eliot, George

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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