Motivational Quotes

Death

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Death

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Luther, Martin

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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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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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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

William Shakespeare

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Sophocles

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