Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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.

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

Barker, Clive

10.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

11.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

16.

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

Euripides

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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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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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

23.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Gide, Andre

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

David Assael

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Hazlitt, William

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De