Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

- Ellis, Alice Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Bible

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

Publilius Syrus

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

David Assael

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Barker, Clive

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

10.

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

11.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

12.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

13.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

14.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

15.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

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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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

William Shakespeare

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

Hook, Sydney

28.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

29.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

32.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

33.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

34.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

35.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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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

37.

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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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Woody Allen

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

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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

44.

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

Duffecy, James

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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An evil life is a kind of death.