Motivational Quotes

Death

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Death

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Plato

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

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

Publilius Syrus

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

10.

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

Barker, Clive

11.

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

12.

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

Edith Sitwell

13.

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

14.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Bayly, Joseph

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

George Burns

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

30.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Gide, Andre

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Bible

42.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Randy K. Milholland

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee