Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Death

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Beaumont, Francis

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Eliot, George

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

Oscar Wilde

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

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

11.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Heidegger, Martin

28.

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

Cocteau, Jean

29.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

30.

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

Becht, Ben

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

Marvell, Andrew

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

35.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

Bible

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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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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Camus, Albert

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

45.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

48.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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