Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Samuel Goldwyn

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

A. Sachs

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

29.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Forster, Edward M.

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Duffecy, James

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich