Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

A. Sachs

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Carson, Johnny

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

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

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Woody Allen

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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

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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'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

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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

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Epicurus

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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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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Mitford, William

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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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 pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.