Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the final wake-up call.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

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

Montgomery, James

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Frost, Robert

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Belloc, Hilaire

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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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.

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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 never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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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

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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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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Camus, Albert

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Camus, Albert

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

42.

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

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Auden, W. H.

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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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