Motivational Quotes

Death

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Death

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Woody Allen

10.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

11.

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

12.

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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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

18.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

19.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

20.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

28.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Guthrie, Arlo

34.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

35.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

39.

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

40.

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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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

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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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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.