Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

- Miller, Joaquin

Best Quotes about Death

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

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

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Dryden, John

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

Montgomery, James

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Euripides

10.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

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

Farber, Dave

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Picabia, Francis

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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.

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Frida Kahlo

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

28.

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

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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.

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

Cocteau, Jean

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Fielding, Henry

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

A. Sachs

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel