Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Frida Kahlo

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Allen, Woody

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Barker, Clive

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

Woody Allen

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Charles II

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Montgomery, James

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett