Motivational Quotes

Death

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Death

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

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Hubbard, Kin

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Matt Frewer

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

Keats, John

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Greene, Graham

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

Butler, Samuel

10.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

12.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

14.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Woody Allen

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Hook, Sydney

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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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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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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

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

Plato

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

Foster, John W.

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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 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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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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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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

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

Canetti, Elias

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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