Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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.

12.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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

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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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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Hazlitt, William

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

20.

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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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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

Duffecy, James

23.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Farber, Dave

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Bible

28.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

35.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

36.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

37.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

39.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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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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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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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

46.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Dryden, John

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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