Motivational Quotes

Death

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Death

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

Horace

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Bhagavad Gita

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Matt Frewer

10.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

11.

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

Addison, Joseph

12.

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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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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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Eliot, George

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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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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Hubbard, Kin

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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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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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Keats, John

30.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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

34.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Camus, Albert

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

43.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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]

Bible

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

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

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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