Motivational Quotes

Death

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

- Melville, Herman

Best Quotes about Death

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

Camus, Albert

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Randy K. Milholland

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bible

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Montgomery, James

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

Bronte, Emily

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Johnny Carson

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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

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

Barker, Clive

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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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

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Euripides

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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

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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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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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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Carson, Johnny

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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

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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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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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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