Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Duffecy, James

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Dickinson, Emily

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Beaumont, Francis

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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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 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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk