Motivational Quotes

Death

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

- Gurdjieff, George

Best Quotes about Death

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

Luther, Martin

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Young, Edward

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

Heidegger, Martin

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Havner, Vance

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

Bible

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

12.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

13.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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'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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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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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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 fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

21.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

25.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

26.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Picabia, Francis

28.

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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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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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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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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

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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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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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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

41.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Dickinson, Emily

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.