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

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Buffett, Jimmy

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dickinson, Emily

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

10.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

11.

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

Palmerston, Lord

12.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Frida Kahlo

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

Luther, Martin

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Havner, Vance

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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 is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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

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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

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Allen, Woody

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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Young, Edward

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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