Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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

Dickinson, Emily

11.

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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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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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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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

16.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Leonardo da Vinci

22.

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

Dryden, John

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

24.

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

Gide, Andre

25.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

26.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

28.

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

Picabia, Francis

29.

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

Epicurus

30.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

31.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

32.

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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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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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

35.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Bronte, Emily

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

41.

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

Bible

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

43.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

46.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

Butler, Samuel