Motivational Quotes

Death

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

- Browne, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Woody Allen

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Bryant, William C.

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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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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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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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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

19.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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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]

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23.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

24.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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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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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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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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Matt Frewer

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Greene, Graham

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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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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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.