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

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

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

Montgomery, James

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

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Leonardo da Vinci

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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

Camus, Albert

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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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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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 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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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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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

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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 may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Horace

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Eliot, George

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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.

Gurdjieff, George

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Auden, W. H.

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Keats, John

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.