Motivational Quotes

Death

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

- Melville, Jean-Pierre

Best Quotes about Death

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

Horace

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Allen, Woody

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

Plato

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

Young, Edward

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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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

David Assael

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bayly, Joseph

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Milton, John

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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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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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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