Motivational Quotes

Death

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]

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Best Quotes about Death

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Randy K. Milholland

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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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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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Woody Allen

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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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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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]

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Farber, Dave

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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

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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

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Publilius Syrus

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Woody Allen

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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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

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Canetti, Elias

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Berra, Yogi

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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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