Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the final wake-up call.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hazlitt, William

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Ken, Thomas

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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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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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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'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Epicurus

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

18.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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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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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

Canetti, Elias

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Hook, Sydney

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Manilius, Marcus

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

34.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

38.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

39.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

40.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Fielding, Henry

45.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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

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

Foster, John W.

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert