Motivational Quotes

Death

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

David Assael

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Bible

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

Marvell, Andrew

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

10.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

11.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Beaumont, Francis

13.

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.

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

15.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Young, Edward

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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

18.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

19.

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

Horace

20.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

24.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

25.

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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

29.

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

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

A. Sachs

31.

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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

33.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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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

35.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

37.

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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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

39.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

41.

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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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

43.

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

Dryden, John

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Randy K. Milholland

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De