Motivational Quotes

Death

A useless life is an early death.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Death

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Bible

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

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

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

11.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

12.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

15.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

19.

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

20.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

21.

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

Gray, Thomas

22.

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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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

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

25.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

28.

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

Forster, Edward M.

29.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

30.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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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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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Lucan, F. L.

35.

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

John Scalzi

36.

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.

37.

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

Barker, Clive

38.

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

Gide, Andre

39.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

40.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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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

42.

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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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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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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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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Keats, John