Motivational Quotes

Death

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Death

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Bayly, Joseph

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

David Assael

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

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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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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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

18.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

24.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mitford, William

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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.

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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

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

Miller, Joaquin

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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

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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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

35.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

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

Bible

37.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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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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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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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

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Woody Allen

49.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Barker, Clive