Motivational Quotes

Death

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

- Arnold, Matthew

Best Quotes about Death

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Samuel Goldwyn

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Ken, Thomas

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

10.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

11.

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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

14.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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.

21.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

23.

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

Bagnold, Enid

24.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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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.

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

Aaron McGruder

29.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

30.

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

Camus, Albert

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Horace

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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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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

39.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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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

41.

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

William Shakespeare

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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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's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.