Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Donne, John

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Woody Allen

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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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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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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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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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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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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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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To awake from death is to die in peace.