Motivational Quotes

Death

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Beaumont, Francis

10.

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

11.

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

Havner, Vance

12.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

13.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

16.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

18.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

19.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

23.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

24.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

25.

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

26.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

27.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

28.

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

Miller, Joaquin

29.

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

30.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

33.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

34.

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

35.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

36.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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

38.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

39.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

40.

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

Mitford, William

42.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

48.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

49.

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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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus