Motivational Quotes

Death

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Death

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

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Auerbach, Red

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Marvell, Andrew

11.

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

Greene, Graham

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Bryant, William C.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Guthrie, Arlo

19.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Stephanie Klein

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Keats, John

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Woody Allen

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

43.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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