Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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.

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

A. Sachs

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

10.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

12.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

18.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

19.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

21.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

25.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

28.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

30.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

31.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

32.

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

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

Becht, Ben

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

36.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

37.

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

38.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

39.

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 someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

42.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

43.

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

44.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

46.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

48.

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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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