Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Buffett, Jimmy

10.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

11.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

13.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

16.

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

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

18.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

20.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

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

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22.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

23.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

24.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

25.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

26.

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

Luther, Martin

27.

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

Picabia, Francis

28.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

30.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

31.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

32.

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

33.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

34.

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

35.

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

36.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

38.

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]

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39.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

40.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

41.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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