Motivational Quotes

Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Haracourt, Edmond

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

Milton, John

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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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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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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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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Fromm, Erich

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

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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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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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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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Gray, Thomas

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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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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Publilius Syrus

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