Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lee, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Heidegger, Martin

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Camus, Albert

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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 feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Hook, Sydney

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

26.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

28.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Bayly, Joseph

30.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

31.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Horace

33.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

34.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

40.

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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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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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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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Cocteau, Jean