Motivational Quotes

Death

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

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Best Quotes about Death

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

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]

Bible

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Foster, John W.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Frida Kahlo

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Eliot, George

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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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

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Young, Edward

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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]

Bible

38.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

39.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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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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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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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Greene, Graham