Motivational Quotes

Death

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]

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Best Quotes about Death

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

John Scalzi

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Frida Kahlo

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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'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

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Woody Allen

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Berra, Yogi

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.