Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Canetti, Elias

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Beaumont, Francis

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Hoffer, Eric

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

10.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

11.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Milton, John

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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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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Greene, Graham

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

19.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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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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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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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Belloc, Hilaire

28.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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

Horace

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

Oscar Wilde

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Plato

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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