Motivational Quotes

Death

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

- Nepos, Cornelius

Best Quotes about Death

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

10.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

11.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

12.

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

A. Sachs

13.

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

14.

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

Sophocles

15.

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

Milton, John

16.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

17.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

18.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

19.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

20.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

21.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

22.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Publilius Syrus

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

27.

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

Macdonald, George

28.

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

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

31.

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

Hoffer, Eric

32.

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.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

34.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

35.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

37.

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

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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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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

40.

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

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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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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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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

46.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

47.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

48.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

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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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel