Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Death

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

Kocher, Gerhard

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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.

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

Dryden, John

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

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Beaumont, Francis

10.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

11.

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

Greene, Graham

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Sophocles

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Butler, Samuel

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

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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

34.

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

Farber, Dave

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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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

48.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

49.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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.