Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

- Man, Paul De

Best Quotes about Death

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Eliot, George

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Horace

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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

11.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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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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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

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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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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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Keats, John

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

Woody Allen

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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Bronte, Emily

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Gide, Andre

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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

49.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert