Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Horace

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Bible

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Woody Allen

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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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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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

Bertolt Brecht

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

18.

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 a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

20.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Plato

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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

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Young, Edward

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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