Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

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

Hendrix, Jimi

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

10.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

11.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.

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

13.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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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

18.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Milton, John

20.

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

21.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

27.

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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

30.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

31.

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

Frost, Robert

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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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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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Canetti, Elias

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

38.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

40.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

43.

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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

50.

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.