Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Allen, Woody

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Bible

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.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

10.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

11.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

13.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

16.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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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

19.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

20.

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Farber, Dave

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

28.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Keats, John

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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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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Bible

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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

40.

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

41.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Butler, Samuel

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

44.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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 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

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Greene, Graham

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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