Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Matt Frewer

Best Quotes about Death

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

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Plato

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Keats, John

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

Bible

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

11.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

12.

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

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

15.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

16.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

17.

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

18.

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

Camus, Albert

19.

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

Picabia, Francis

20.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

21.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

22.

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

Frost, Robert

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

24.

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

Hoffer, Eric

25.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

26.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

27.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

28.

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

Eliot, George

29.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

31.

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

Butler, Samuel

32.

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

Edith Sitwell

33.

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

Ann Radcliffe

34.

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

Montgomery, James

35.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

36.

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

Macdonald, George

37.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

40.

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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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

42.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

43.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

44.

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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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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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've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

Bronte, Emily

49.

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

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

Young, Edward