Motivational Quotes

Death

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Death

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Bayly, Joseph

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

10.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

11.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

12.

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

Becht, Ben

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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

14.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

16.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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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.

18.

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

David Assael

19.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

25.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

27.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

28.

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

Bright, Grant M.

29.

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.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Bible

33.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

34.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

35.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.

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

Craig Volk

39.

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

Cocteau, Jean

40.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

42.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Horace

44.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Canetti, Elias

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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