Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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.

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

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

'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

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Carson, Johnny

19.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Young, Edward

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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

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Chandler, Raymond

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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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 but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Matt Frewer

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.