Motivational Quotes

Death

An evil life is a kind of death.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Death

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

Guthrie, Arlo

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

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

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

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Heidegger, Martin

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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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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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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]

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Plato

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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