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

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

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Barker, Clive

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Allen, Woody

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak