Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- A. Sachs

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

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

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Publilius Syrus

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

10.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

11.

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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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

30.

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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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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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

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Dyer, Wayne

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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