Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Death

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

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Allen, Woody

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Eliot, George

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Hendrix, Jimi

27.

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

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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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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

32.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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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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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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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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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 killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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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

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph