Motivational Quotes

Death

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

- Mackay, Charles

Best Quotes about 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

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.

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

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Woody Allen

10.

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

Oscar Wilde

11.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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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

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

Barker, Clive

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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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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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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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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Bronte, Emily

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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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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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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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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Camus, Albert

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

Canetti, Elias

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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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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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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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

David Assael

48.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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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