Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bright, Grant M.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

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

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Bronte, Emily

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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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

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

13.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

Lee, Nathaniel

15.

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

Farber, Dave

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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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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

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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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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

20.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

24.

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

Allen, Woody

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

28.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

30.

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

Horace

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

33.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

38.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

40.

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

Bryant, William C.

41.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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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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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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