Motivational Quotes

Death

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Death

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

10.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Matt Frewer

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

15.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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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

18.

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

Euripides

19.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

23.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

25.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

27.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Gide, Andre

31.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

33.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

35.

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

Mann, Thomas

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Woody Allen

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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

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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 is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Addison, Joseph

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar