Motivational Quotes

Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Woody Allen

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Pamela Ribon

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

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

Milton, John

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Mitford, William

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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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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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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

Donne, John

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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

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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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

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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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

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De