Motivational Quotes

Death

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

- David Assael

Best Quotes about Death

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

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

Randy K. Milholland

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

11.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

16.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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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

20.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

22.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

23.

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

Gide, Andre

24.

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

Randy K. Milholland

25.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

26.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

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

Ann Radcliffe

28.

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

29.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Canetti, Elias

33.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Craig Volk

35.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

37.

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.

Epicurus

38.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

39.

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.

40.

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

Horace

41.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

42.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

43.

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

Fielding, Henry

44.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

45.

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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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

47.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

49.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

50.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.