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

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Matt Frewer

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S�ren

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Oscar Wilde

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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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'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Lucan, F. L.

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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

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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Fosdick, Harry Emerson