Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Death

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

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

Dickinson, Emily

11.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

17.

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

Frida Kahlo

18.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

19.

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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Bible

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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

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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

31.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Randy K. Milholland

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

41.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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.