Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

Fielding, Henry

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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.

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Gide, Andre

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

Luther, Martin

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

Foster, John W.

27.

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

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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

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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

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Charles II

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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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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

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Barker, Clive

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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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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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