Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Miller, Joaquin

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Camus, Albert

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

Lowell, James Russell

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

Edith Sitwell

10.

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

Mann, Thomas

11.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

12.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Fielding, Henry

18.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Hubbard, Kin

21.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

22.

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

23.

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 fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

29.

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

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Keats, John

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Dryden, John

39.

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

Woody Allen

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Woody Allen

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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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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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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

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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