Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Fielding, Henry

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

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

Woody Allen

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Gray, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

13.

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

Horace

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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

15.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

16.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

17.

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

Camus, Albert

18.

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

Lucan, F. L.

20.

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

Beaumont, Francis

21.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

22.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

25.

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

Heidegger, Martin

26.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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.

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

29.

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

30.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

Bright, Grant M.

32.

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.

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

Hermes, Georg

34.

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

Hoffer, Eric

35.

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

Eliot, George

36.

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

Randy K. Milholland

37.

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

Berra, Yogi

38.

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

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

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

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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

42.

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

Woody Allen

43.

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

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

46.

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

Bronte, Emily

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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

48.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

49.

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

Cocteau, Jean