Motivational Quotes

Death

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

- Gabrielle Zevin

Best Quotes about Death

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Picabia, Francis

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

Gray, Thomas

10.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

11.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

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

14.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

15.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

16.

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

Camus, Albert

18.

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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

24.

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

Matt Frewer

25.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

26.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

27.

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

Bagnold, Enid

28.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

30.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

31.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

32.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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'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

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

38.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

39.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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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

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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 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