Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Death

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

12.

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

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

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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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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Becht, Ben

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

19.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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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

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

24.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

25.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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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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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Dryden, John

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

38.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Bronte, Emily

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

48.

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

Hazlitt, William

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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