Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Farber, Dave

Best Quotes about Death

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

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

Craig Volk

11.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

12.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

14.

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

Dryden, John

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

17.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

19.

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

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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

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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

22.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Dickinson, Emily

24.

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

Milton, John

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

27.

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

David Assael

28.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

37.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Butler, Samuel

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

42.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Young, Edward

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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

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich