Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

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

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

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

William Shakespeare

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

11.

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

12.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Woody Allen

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Bible

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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

30.

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

Berra, Yogi

31.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Barker, Clive

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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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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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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

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

Dyer, Wayne

49.

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

Eliot, George

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