Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

- Maclaren, Alexander

Best Quotes about Death

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Fielding, Henry

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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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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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Bertolt Brecht

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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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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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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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

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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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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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