Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Death

'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

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

Haracourt, Edmond

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Berra, Yogi

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

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

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

10.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

11.

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

12.

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

Dickinson, Emily

13.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

14.

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

15.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

16.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

17.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

18.

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

Addison, Joseph

19.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

Sophocles

23.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

25.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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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

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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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

30.

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.

31.

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

Horace

32.

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

Bacon, Francis

33.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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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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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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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

38.

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

Donne, John

39.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

40.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

41.

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 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

43.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

44.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

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

Bible

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.