Motivational Quotes

Death

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

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Best Quotes about Death

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Gide, Andre

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

Hermes, Georg

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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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Pamela Ribon

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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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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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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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Woody Allen

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Butler, Samuel

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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.

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph