Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Sophocles

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

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

12.

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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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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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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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

16.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

21.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

22.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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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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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

25.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

27.

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

Montgomery, James

28.

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

Eliot, George

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

32.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

33.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

34.

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

Woody Allen

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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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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

40.

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

Dryden, John

41.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

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

Young, Edward

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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

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

49.

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

Charles II

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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