Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Miller, Joaquin

Best Quotes about Death

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Camus, Albert

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Dickinson, Emily

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

William Shakespeare

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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'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

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Eliot, George

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

A. Sachs

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace