Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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

Berra, Yogi

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Allen, Woody

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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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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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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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Allen, Woody

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Greene, Graham

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

Bacon, Francis

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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 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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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver