Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Foster, John W.

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Becht, Ben

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

Sophocles

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

10.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

John Scalzi

13.

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

Hoffer, Eric

14.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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

17.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

19.

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

Forster, Edward M.

20.

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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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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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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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

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

27.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Bible

31.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gray, Thomas

33.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

34.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

38.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

39.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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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

49.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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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