Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Death

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Landor, Walter Savage

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Lucan, F. L.

11.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

12.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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

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

Picabia, Francis

17.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Macdonald, George

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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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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

24.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

25.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

26.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

27.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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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

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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

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

34.

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

Canetti, Elias

35.

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

John Scalzi

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

40.

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

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Byron, Lord

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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

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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

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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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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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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

48.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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