Motivational Quotes

Death

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Death

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

Plato

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

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

Keats, John

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

10.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

A. Sachs

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Darrow, Clarence

15.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

16.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

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

18.

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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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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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

Auden, W. H.

22.

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.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

25.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

27.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

28.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

29.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

32.

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

Barker, Clive

33.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

34.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

35.

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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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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

40.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

41.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

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

Carson, Johnny

43.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.