Motivational Quotes

Death

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Bayly, Joseph

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Camus, Albert

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

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

Bible

12.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

13.

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

Allen, Woody

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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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

17.

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

18.

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

Woody Allen

19.

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

Foster, John W.

20.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

21.

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

Bronte, Emily

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

23.

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

Beaumont, Francis

24.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

25.

'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

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

31.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

32.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

33.

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

Frost, Robert

34.

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

35.

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

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

Horace

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

40.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

41.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

42.

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

43.

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

Hoffer, Eric

44.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

45.

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

Bagnold, Enid

46.

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

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

49.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De