Motivational Quotes

Death

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Gray, Thomas

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

William Shakespeare

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Dryden, John

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Johnny Carson

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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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

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Bayly, Joseph

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Hook, Sydney

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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.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

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

Epictetus

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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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Macdonald, George

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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

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire