Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bronte, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Plato

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

13.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

14.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Bayly, Joseph

17.

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

Camus, Albert

18.

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

Young, Edward

19.

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

Gray, Thomas

20.

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

Horace

21.

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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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

24.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

25.

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

Dryden, John

26.

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

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

Buffett, Jimmy

28.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Aaron McGruder

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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.

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

34.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

35.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

36.

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

Johnny Carson

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

39.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

40.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Hazlitt, William

46.

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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

48.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus