Motivational Quotes

Death

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

- Beckett, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

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

A. Sachs

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

10.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

11.

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

George Burns

12.

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

13.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

14.

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

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

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

Fielding, Henry

17.

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

Young, Edward

18.

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

Edith Sitwell

19.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

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

Publilius Syrus

21.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

22.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

23.

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

Auden, W. H.

24.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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

26.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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

28.

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

29.

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.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

33.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

35.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

36.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

38.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

40.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

43.

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.

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Havner, Vance

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.