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

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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

Camus, Albert

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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 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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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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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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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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

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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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

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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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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.