Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Canetti, Elias

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

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gide, Andre

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

10.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

12.

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

Camus, Albert

13.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

14.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

15.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

16.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

17.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

18.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

19.

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

20.

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

Bronte, Emily

21.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

22.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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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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

25.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

26.

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

Hoffer, Eric

27.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

28.

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

29.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

30.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

31.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

32.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Plato

36.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

38.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

39.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

40.

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

Fielding, Henry

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

David Assael

43.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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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 fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

46.

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

Gray, Thomas

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'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

48.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Horace

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

Guthrie, Arlo