Motivational Quotes

Death

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Death

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

Plato

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

10.

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

Sophocles

11.

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

Barker, Clive

12.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

13.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

15.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Canetti, Elias

17.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

18.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

19.

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

Woody Allen

20.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

21.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

Bhagavad Gita

23.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

25.

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]

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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

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

28.

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

29.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

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

Johnny Carson

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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

34.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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35.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

36.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

38.

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

Bryant, William C.

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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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

41.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

42.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

43.

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

David Assael

44.

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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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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48.

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

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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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