Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bible

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Macdonald, George

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Dryden, John

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

10.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

12.

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.

13.

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

Fielding, Henry

15.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

16.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

17.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

18.

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

Edith Sitwell

19.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

20.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

21.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

22.

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

23.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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 has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Eliot, George

28.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

29.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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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

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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

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Keats, John

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

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

Bronte, Emily

38.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

39.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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

42.

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

Heidegger, Martin

43.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

47.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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