Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Mitford, William

Best Quotes about Death

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

10.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

11.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Milton, John

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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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

17.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

18.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

25.

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

Edith Sitwell

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Cocteau, Jean

30.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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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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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Pamela Ribon

38.

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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Bible

41.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

42.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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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.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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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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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

49.

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

Woody Allen

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody