Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Havner, Vance

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bible

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

10.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

11.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

12.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Craig Volk

14.

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

15.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

16.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Dickinson, Emily

18.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

19.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

20.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

21.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

22.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Pamela Ribon

25.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

26.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

27.

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

Butler, Samuel

28.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

29.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

30.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

31.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

32.

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

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

38.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

39.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

40.

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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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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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

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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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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

45.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

46.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Forster, Edward M.

48.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

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

Bible

50.

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