Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Death

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Barker, Clive

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Plato

12.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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.

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

Bryant, William C.

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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.

Camus, Albert

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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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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

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Bible

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Bronte, Emily

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

36.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Bible

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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

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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.

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

Woody Allen

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward