Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

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

Lucan, F. L.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Manilius, Marcus

10.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

11.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

13.

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

14.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

15.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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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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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

18.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

19.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

20.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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

22.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

24.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

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

Allen, Woody

28.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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

30.

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

31.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

32.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

33.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

34.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

36.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

37.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

38.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Publilius Syrus

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

41.

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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

43.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

44.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

45.

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

46.

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

Farber, Dave

47.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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

49.

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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire