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

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

Hook, Sydney

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Dryden, John

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

10.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

11.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Kocher, Gerhard

14.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

15.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

16.

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

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

18.

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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

23.

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

Bryant, William C.

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Publilius Syrus

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

27.

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

Bright, Grant M.

28.

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

Auden, W. H.

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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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

31.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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

36.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

39.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

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

Eliot, George

44.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

46.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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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.