Motivational Quotes

Death

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Death

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Epictetus

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

William Shakespeare

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Lowell, James Russell

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

11.

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.

12.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

14.

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

15.

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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

17.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

18.

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

19.

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

Cocteau, Jean

20.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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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

24.

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

25.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

27.

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

Publilius Syrus

28.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

29.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

30.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

31.

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

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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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

34.

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

Dryden, John

36.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

39.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

40.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

42.

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

Carson, Johnny

43.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

45.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

48.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

49.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin