Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Hoffer, Eric

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Milton, John

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

Pamela Ribon

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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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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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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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

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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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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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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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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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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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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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

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

Greene, Graham

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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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Woody Allen

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Bryant, William C.

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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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

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

Heidegger, Martin

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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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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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Fielding, Henry