Motivational Quotes

Death

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Death

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

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Publilius Syrus

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.

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.

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

Bayly, Joseph

10.

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

Macdonald, George

11.

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

Butler, Samuel

12.

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

Stephanie Klein

13.

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

Barker, Clive

14.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

15.

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

Horace

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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

17.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

18.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

20.

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

Johnny Carson

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

24.

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

25.

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

Becht, Ben

26.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

27.

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

Camus, Albert

28.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

32.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

33.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

34.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

35.

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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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

38.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

40.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

41.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

42.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

43.

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

George Burns

44.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

45.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

46.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

49.

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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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.