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

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Guthrie, Arlo

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Allen, Woody

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

Plato

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

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

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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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

16.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

18.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

20.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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 doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

Bible

29.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Bright, Grant M.

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Beaumont, Francis

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

44.

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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger