Motivational Quotes

Death

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

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

Gide, Andre

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

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Craig Volk

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

10.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

12.

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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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

15.

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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

17.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

18.

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

19.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

20.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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

22.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Havner, Vance

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

Fielding, Henry

31.

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

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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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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

35.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

36.

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

Charles II

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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

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

Publilius Syrus

39.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

41.

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

Milton, John

42.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

43.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

44.

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

45.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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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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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Fromm, Erich