Motivational Quotes

Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Picabia, Francis

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

10.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

11.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

12.

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

Barker, Clive

13.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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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.

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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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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

20.

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

21.

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

Camus, Albert

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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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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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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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

27.

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

Addison, Joseph

28.

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

John Scalzi

29.

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

Dyer, Wayne

30.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

33.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

34.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Havner, Vance

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

39.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

42.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

44.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

46.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Montgomery, James

48.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.