Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Canetti, Elias

Best Quotes about Death

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Leonardo da Vinci

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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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

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

Berra, Yogi

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Publilius Syrus

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Bible

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Plato

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

37.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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'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

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

Eliot, George

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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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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Eliot, George

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

Barker, Clive

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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