Motivational Quotes

Death

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

- Berger, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Greene, Graham

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

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Beaumont, Francis

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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 death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Montgomery, James

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

Bible

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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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

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Woody Allen

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Forster, Edward M.

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Chandler, Raymond

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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