Motivational Quotes

Death

A useless life is an early death.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Death

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Forster, Edward M.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Mann, Thomas

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

10.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

11.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

12.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

14.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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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

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Foster, John W.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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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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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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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

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

Eliot, George

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Chandler, Raymond

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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