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

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Jefferson, Joseph

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

13.

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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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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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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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Woody Allen

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

Barker, Clive

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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

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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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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Craig Volk

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

Bacon, Francis

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Farber, Dave

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

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43.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Carson, Johnny

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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

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.