Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Camus, Albert

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

Bagnold, Enid

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

William Shakespeare

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bible

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

11.

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

Heidegger, Martin

12.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

14.

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

Barker, Clive

15.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

16.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

17.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

18.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

19.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

20.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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

Becht, Ben

22.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

23.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

24.

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

Bronte, Emily

25.

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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

27.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

30.

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

Carson, Johnny

31.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

32.

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

Eliot, George

33.

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

Euripides

34.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

37.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

38.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

39.

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

Forster, Edward M.

40.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

41.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

43.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

44.

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

45.

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

William Shakespeare

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich