Motivational Quotes

Death

To awake from death is to die in peace.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Woody Allen

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

Bronte, Emily

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

10.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

11.

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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

18.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Woody Allen

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

26.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

27.

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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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Epicurus

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

41.

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

Bagnold, Enid

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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

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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

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Lowell, James Russell

48.

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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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