Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Bronte, Emily

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Gray, Thomas

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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

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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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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

17.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

28.

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

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Epicurus

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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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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Ken, Thomas

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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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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

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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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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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth