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

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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 a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Berra, Yogi

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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

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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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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Keats, John

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Bayly, Joseph

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

48.

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

Euripides

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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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee