Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the final wake-up call.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Young, Edward

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

10.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

11.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

12.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

14.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

15.

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

Bertolt Brecht

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

17.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

18.

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

Hoffer, Eric

19.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

20.

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

21.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

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

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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.

29.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

36.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

43.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

47.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Belloc, Hilaire

49.

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

Chandler, Raymond