Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Macdonald, George

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

John Scalzi

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Butler, Samuel

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Einstein, Albert

12.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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

Lucan, F. L.

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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 destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Farber, Dave

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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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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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

34.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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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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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Allen, Woody

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.