Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Plato

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

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

10.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

12.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

13.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Gide, Andre

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

18.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

22.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

23.

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

Bible

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

25.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

30.

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

Charles II

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

Canetti, Elias

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

33.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

34.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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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.

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

41.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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 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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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 world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.