Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Lee, Nathaniel

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

11.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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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

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

16.

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

17.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

19.

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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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

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

22.

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

Publilius Syrus

24.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

25.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

26.

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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'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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

29.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

30.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

32.

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

Woody Allen

33.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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

35.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Dryden, John

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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

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

40.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

41.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

Keats, John

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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

50.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz