Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

Johnny Carson

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Eliot, George

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Jefferson, Joseph

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Woody Allen

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

19.

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

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bronte, Emily

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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

32.

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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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph