Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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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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.

11.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

13.

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

Matt Frewer

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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

16.

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

Pamela Ribon

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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

18.

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.

19.

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

Eliot, George

20.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

21.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

22.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

24.

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

28.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

29.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

30.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

34.

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

39.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

41.

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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

43.

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

Plato

44.

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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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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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

49.

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

Auerbach, Red

50.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily