Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

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

Einstein, Albert

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Bronte, Emily

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

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

10.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

11.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

12.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

13.

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

14.

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

Cocteau, Jean

15.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Bagnold, Enid

18.

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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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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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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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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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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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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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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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

26.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Moody, Dwight L.

29.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

30.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

31.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Bible

33.

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

Sophocles

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

George Burns

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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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

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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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

43.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

49.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein