Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Belloc, Hilaire

Best Quotes about 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

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

Donne, John

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Heidegger, Martin

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Young, Edward

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Bible

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

15.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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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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

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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Farber, Dave

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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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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily