Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

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

Camus, Albert

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Beaumont, Francis

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

11.

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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Woody Allen

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

Horace

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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

22.

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

Pamela Ribon

24.

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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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Bryant, William C.

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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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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

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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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

A. Sachs

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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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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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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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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.