Motivational Quotes

Death

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Death

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

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Stephanie Klein

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

Auerbach, Red

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

John Scalzi

13.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

14.

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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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Aaron McGruder

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

18.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

19.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

21.

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

Barker, Clive

22.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Woody Allen

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Butler, Samuel

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

36.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

37.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Dryden, John

44.

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

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

Becht, Ben

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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.