Motivational Quotes

Death

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

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Best Quotes about Death

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

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

Bagnold, Enid

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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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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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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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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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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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

George Burns

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

Dyer, Wayne

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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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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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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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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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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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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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Donne, John

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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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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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Keats, John

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

Woody Allen

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

Fromm, Erich

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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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz