Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

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

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

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

Woody Allen

12.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

13.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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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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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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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Randy K. Milholland

20.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

Lee, Nathaniel

28.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

29.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

30.

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

31.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

36.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Hoffer, Eric

38.

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

Epicurus

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.