Motivational Quotes

Death

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

- Dhammapada

Best Quotes about Death

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Addison, Joseph

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Keats, John

11.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Frida Kahlo

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

A. Sachs

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Gide, Andre

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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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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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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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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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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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Bible

40.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

41.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert