Motivational Quotes

Death

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Death

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Thrale, Hester i

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

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

10.

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

11.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

19.

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

Keats, John

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Epicurus

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

24.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Randy K. Milholland

27.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

28.

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

Woody Allen

29.

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

Berra, Yogi

31.

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Craig Volk

35.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

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

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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

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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

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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

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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