Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Death

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Plato

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Stephanie Klein

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

10.

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

Johnny Carson

11.

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

12.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

14.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

15.

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.

16.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bible

18.

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

Dryden, John

19.

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

Canetti, Elias

20.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

21.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

23.

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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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

25.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

28.

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

Camus, Albert

30.

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

Horace

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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

32.

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

Allen, Woody

34.

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

Mitford, William

35.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

36.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

37.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

38.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

40.

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

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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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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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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

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

Horace

45.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

47.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

48.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

49.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

50.

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