Motivational Quotes

Death

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]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

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

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Duffecy, James

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Palmerston, Lord

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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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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

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Eliot, George

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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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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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Randy K. Milholland

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Woody Allen

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver