Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Death

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

'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

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

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

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.

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

Woody Allen

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Mann, Thomas

10.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

11.

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

Horace

12.

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

Bright, Grant M.

13.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

14.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

15.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

16.

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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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

21.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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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]

Bible

23.

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

Auden, W. H.

24.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

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

26.

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]

Bible

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Craig Volk

30.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

31.

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

Bagnold, Enid

32.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

33.

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

Montgomery, James

34.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

35.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

36.

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, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

39.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

44.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Epicurus

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

47.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Einstein, Albert