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

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Bible

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

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Becht, Ben

11.

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

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Eliot, George

15.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

18.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

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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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

22.

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

Bagnold, Enid

23.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

30.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

31.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

33.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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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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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Bible

39.

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

Euripides

40.

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

Hazlitt, William

41.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

Bayly, Joseph

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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

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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