Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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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

11.

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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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

13.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

14.

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

Allen, Woody

15.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

16.

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

Charles II

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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

18.

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

Einstein, Albert

19.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

20.

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

Allen, Woody

21.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

22.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

23.

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

Randy K. Milholland

24.

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

Donne, John

25.

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

Young, Edward

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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

27.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

28.

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

29.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Matt Frewer

33.

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

Pamela Ribon

34.

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

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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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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

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

38.

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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

40.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

41.

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

Fromm, Erich

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

44.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

45.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

47.

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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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 a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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