Motivational Quotes

Death

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Death

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 cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Donne, John

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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 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

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Milton, John

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Sophocles

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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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

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Hermes, Georg

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.