Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- A. Sachs

Best Quotes about Death

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

David Assael

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

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

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

Allen, Woody

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Montgomery, James

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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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

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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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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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 can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott