Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Frida Kahlo

Best Quotes about Death

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Berra, Yogi

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

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

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

10.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Macdonald, George

16.

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

17.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Auden, W. H.

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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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

26.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

28.

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

George Burns

29.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

31.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

34.

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

David Assael

35.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

36.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Bronte, Emily

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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

42.

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

Barker, Clive

43.

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

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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

Havner, Vance

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

Woody Allen

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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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