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

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

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

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

Hermes, Georg

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

Hubbard, Kin

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Bright, Grant M.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Farber, Dave

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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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

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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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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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.