Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

Woody Allen

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

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

Milton, John

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

Randy K. Milholland

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Hoffer, Eric

11.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

12.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

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13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Allen, Woody

15.

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

16.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

17.

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

Marvell, Andrew

18.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

19.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

20.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

21.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

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

23.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

24.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

25.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

27.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

28.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

29.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

30.

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

Craig Volk

31.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

32.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

33.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

34.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

35.

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

Woody Allen

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

40.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

41.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

43.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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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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

47.

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

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

49.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Edith Sitwell