Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Chandler, Raymond

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Lucan, F. L.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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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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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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

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

Randy K. Milholland

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

29.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

30.

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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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

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

Dryden, John

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Eliot, George

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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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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell