Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Death

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

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Matt Frewer

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

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Montgomery, James

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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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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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 is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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

Mitford, William

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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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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Marvell, Andrew

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

William Shakespeare

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.