Motivational Quotes

Death

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Camus, Albert

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

11.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

19.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Lowell, James Russell

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

27.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

28.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

34.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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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

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Farber, Dave

44.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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