Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Keats, John

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

Keats, John

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Ken, Thomas

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

13.

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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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

15.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

16.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

17.

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

18.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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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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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

25.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

28.

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

Bible

29.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

30.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

31.

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

Cocteau, Jean

32.

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

33.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

34.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Farber, Dave

38.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

40.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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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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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

44.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

47.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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

49.

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

Bright, Grant M.