Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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 better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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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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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

15.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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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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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Epicurus

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Fromm, Erich

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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

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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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

34.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

35.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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

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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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Gide, Andre