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

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

Mitford, William

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

10.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

11.

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

12.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

13.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

14.

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

15.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

16.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Marvell, Andrew

20.

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

21.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

23.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

24.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

25.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

28.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

29.

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

Camus, Albert

30.

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

31.

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

Dryden, John

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

37.

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.

38.

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

Milton, John

40.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

41.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

42.

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

Horace

43.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

44.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

45.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

48.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

49.

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

50.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales