Motivational Quotes

Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Havner, Vance

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

10.

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

11.

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

Luther, Martin

12.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

13.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

14.

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

15.

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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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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

18.

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

19.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

20.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

21.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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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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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

26.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

27.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

28.

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

Farber, Dave

29.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

30.

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

31.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

32.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

34.

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

Picabia, Francis

35.

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

36.

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

Bryant, William C.

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

39.

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

Camus, Albert

40.

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

Woody Allen

41.

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

42.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

43.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

44.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

48.

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

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The fear of death is worse than death.