Motivational Quotes

Death

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

Dryden, John

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

Gide, Andre

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

12.

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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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

15.

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Camus, Albert

21.

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

22.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

25.

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

Barker, Clive

26.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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

28.

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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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

30.

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

Bertolt Brecht

31.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

33.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

35.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Craig Volk

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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

39.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

40.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

43.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Young, Edward

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

49.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.