Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Euripides

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Mitford, William

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.

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

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

10.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

11.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

12.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

13.

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

Forster, Edward M.

14.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

15.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

16.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

17.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

18.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

19.

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

Keats, John

20.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

21.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

22.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

23.

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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

25.

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

John Scalzi

26.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

28.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

29.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

31.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

32.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

33.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Macdonald, George

37.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

39.

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

Craig Volk

40.

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

Cocteau, Jean

42.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

43.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

44.

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

Auerbach, Red

45.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

46.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

47.

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

Woody Allen

48.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Death doesn't frighten me.