Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

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

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

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

Publilius Syrus

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

11.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

12.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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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

14.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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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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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Barker, Clive

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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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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

32.

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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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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