Motivational Quotes

Death

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Death

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Camus, Albert

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

Macdonald, George

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

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Woody Allen

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

12.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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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

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

24.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

Plato

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hazlitt, William

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Farber, Dave

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

Woody Allen

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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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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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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

46.

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

47.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Eliot, George