Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

John Scalzi

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

18.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Fromm, Erich

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Berra, Yogi

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Woody Allen

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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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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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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Hazlitt, William

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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.