Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mitford, William

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Dickinson, Emily

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

12.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

Camus, Albert

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

Craig Volk

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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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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 a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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 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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

30.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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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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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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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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye