Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Hook, Sydney

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

10.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

11.

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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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

14.

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

Dryden, John

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Keats, John

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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

21.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Bryant, William C.

25.

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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'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

27.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

28.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

29.

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

Bagnold, Enid

30.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

31.

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

Craig Volk

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

35.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

38.

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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

A. Sachs

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Canetti, Elias

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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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

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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

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

47.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

48.

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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

50.

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

Aurelius, Marcus