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

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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

10.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

11.

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.

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

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

14.

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

Craig Volk

15.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

16.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

17.

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

Hook, Sydney

18.

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

Hazlitt, William

19.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

20.

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

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

Euripides

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

25.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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

28.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Bible

30.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

31.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Gide, Andre

33.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Horace

35.

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

Woody Allen

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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Mitford, William

39.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

40.

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

41.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

42.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

43.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

45.

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

46.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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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