Motivational Quotes

Death

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

- Khayyam, Omar

Best Quotes about Death

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

10.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

11.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Milton, John

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

17.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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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

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

Edith Sitwell

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

Oscar Wilde

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

28.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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.

33.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Dryden, John

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

Woody Allen

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Einstein, Albert

41.

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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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Mann, Thomas

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Aurelius, Marcus