Motivational Quotes

Death

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Hubbard, Kin

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

10.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Johnny Carson

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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 all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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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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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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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

24.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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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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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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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 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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Bible

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

John Scalzi

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert