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

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Lucan, F. L.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Craig Volk

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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

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

Duffecy, James

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

Hermes, Georg

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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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 the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

Canetti, Elias

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.