Motivational Quotes

Death

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

- Arnold, Matthew

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

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

Bible

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

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

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

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

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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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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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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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Allen, Woody

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Matt Frewer

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Miller, Joaquin

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Publilius Syrus

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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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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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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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Allen, Woody

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

Becht, Ben

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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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De