Motivational Quotes

Death

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

- Plato

Best Quotes about Death

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Camus, Albert

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

Beaumont, Francis

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Samuel Goldwyn

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

10.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

11.

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

12.

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

Woody Allen

13.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

14.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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

Charles II

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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

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

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.

21.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

22.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Canetti, Elias

24.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Publilius Syrus

31.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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

34.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

35.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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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

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

Butler, Samuel

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

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