Motivational Quotes

Death

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

- Hallaj

Best Quotes about Death

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

Butler, Samuel

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Woody Allen

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

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Keats, John

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

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Woody Allen

11.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

12.

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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

15.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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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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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

18.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

19.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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

27.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

28.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

30.

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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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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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Milton, John

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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.

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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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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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.