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

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Pamela Ribon

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

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

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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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 be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Eliot, George

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Picabia, Francis

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Fielding, Henry

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Hazlitt, William

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Kocher, Gerhard