Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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 is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Craig Volk

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

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

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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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

11.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hoffer, Eric

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Luther, Martin

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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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.

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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]

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Mann, Thomas

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