Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Farber, Dave

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

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

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

Barker, Clive

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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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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Plato

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Craig Volk

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Plato

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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 don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Milton, John

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