Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Bible

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

Randy K. Milholland

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Palmerston, Lord

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

10.

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

11.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Edith Sitwell

14.

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

Dickinson, Emily

15.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

16.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

18.

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

Bible

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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

20.

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

21.

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

Havner, Vance

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

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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

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

Woody Allen

27.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

28.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

30.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

William Shakespeare

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

36.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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 world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

40.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Fielding, Henry

42.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John