Motivational Quotes

Death

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

- Khayyam, Omar

Best Quotes about Death

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Guthrie, Arlo

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

Becht, Ben

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

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Epicurus

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Butler, Samuel

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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

Euripides

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]