Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Death

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

Farber, Dave

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

Woody Allen

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

Bible

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bagnold, Enid

10.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

11.

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

12.

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

Dryden, John

13.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

14.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Allen, Woody

20.

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

Carson, Johnny

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Ken, Thomas

25.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

30.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

37.

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

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

39.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Auerbach, Red

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