Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hermes, Georg

Best Quotes about Death

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

Dryden, John

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Canetti, Elias

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Dryden, John

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

Craig Volk

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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

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

28.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Montgomery, James

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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

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Epicurus

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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