Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Manilius, Marcus

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Lowell, James Russell

11.

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

Bible

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Milton, John

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Gide, Andre

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

28.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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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.

42.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.