Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Carson, Johnny

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Edith Sitwell

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

William Shakespeare

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

Kocher, Gerhard

10.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

11.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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

13.

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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

15.

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

Miller, Joaquin

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

17.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

18.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

22.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

24.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

25.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

26.

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

Young, Edward

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

Woody Allen

28.

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

31.

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

Canetti, Elias

32.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

35.

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

36.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

43.

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

William Shakespeare

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Auden, W. H.

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell