Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

- Bayly, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Allen, Woody

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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Beaumont, Francis

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

13.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

14.

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

Becht, Ben

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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

17.

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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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

20.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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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 fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

25.

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

Bright, Grant M.

26.

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

27.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Woody Allen

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

Randy K. Milholland

31.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

32.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

33.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

42.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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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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

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Horace