Motivational Quotes

Death

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

- Berger, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

10.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

14.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

15.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

19.

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

John Scalzi

20.

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

Horace

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

William Shakespeare

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

25.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

26.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

27.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

28.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

30.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

31.

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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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

33.

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

34.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

35.

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

Berra, Yogi

36.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

39.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

40.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

41.

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

42.

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

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'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

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

45.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

46.

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

47.

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

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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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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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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi