Motivational Quotes

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

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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

John Scalzi

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

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Bryant, William C.

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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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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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

28.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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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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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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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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

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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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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 doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales