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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Gray, Thomas

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

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

Johnny Carson

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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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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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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

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Gide, Andre

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Allen, Woody

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Lucan, F. L.

37.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

Keats, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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]

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak