Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Death

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Oscar Wilde

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

14.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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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

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Dryden, John

18.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Randy K. Milholland

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

David Assael

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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

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

29.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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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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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

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Macdonald, George

41.

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

Allen, Woody

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

43.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Epicurus

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz