Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lowell, James Russell

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

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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.

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

Dryden, John

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Bronte, Emily

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

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

10.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

11.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

12.

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

Woody Allen

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

14.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

15.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Sophocles

17.

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

Miller, Joaquin

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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

20.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

21.

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

Montgomery, James

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

Havner, Vance

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

Aaron McGruder

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

25.

'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

26.

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

Frida Kahlo

27.

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

Milton, John

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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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

31.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

32.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

33.

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

Keats, John

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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

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

Becht, Ben

40.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Life is a loss of time.