Motivational Quotes

Death

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

11.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Bright, Grant M.

19.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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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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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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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

37.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Charles II

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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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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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.