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 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

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Marvell, Andrew

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Greene, Graham

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Foster, John W.

10.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Horace

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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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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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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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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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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

Canetti, Elias

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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

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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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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mann, Thomas

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Bible

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Picabia, Francis

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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