Motivational Quotes

Death

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

- Arnold, Matthew

Best Quotes about Death

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Miller, Joaquin

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

12.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

13.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

14.

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

Johnny Carson

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

Allen, Woody

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

19.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

29.

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

36.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Farber, Dave

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

Woody Allen

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Milton, John

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

Bible

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides