Motivational Quotes

Death

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Bible

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

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

Camus, Albert

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

10.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Johnny Carson

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

16.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

17.

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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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Foster, John W.

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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

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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.

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

28.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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 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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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

40.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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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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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry