Motivational Quotes

Death

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

- Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Best Quotes about Death

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

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Woody Allen

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

Donne, John

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Euripides

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Marvell, Andrew

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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

11.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

12.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

13.

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 last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Montgomery, James

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

23.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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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

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gray, Thomas

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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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

49.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

50.

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