Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Canetti, Elias

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Einstein, Albert

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

10.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

11.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

12.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

13.

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

Bryant, William C.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

17.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

19.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

20.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Gray, Thomas

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

John Scalzi

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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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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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

31.

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

32.

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

Allen, Woody

33.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

34.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Forster, Edward M.

36.

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

Randy K. Milholland

37.

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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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

44.

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

Craig Volk

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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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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.