Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Death

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

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

A. Sachs

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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 difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

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

Carson, Johnny

10.

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

11.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

12.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

13.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

14.

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

15.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

17.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

18.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

'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

20.

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

Dryden, John

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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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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

24.

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

25.

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

Bacon, Francis

26.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

27.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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

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

Ken, Thomas

30.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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

Montgomery, James

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

40.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

41.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

46.

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

Auden, W. H.

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

48.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

49.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne