Motivational Quotes

Death

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

- Khayyam, Omar

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Sophocles

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Young, Edward

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

Palmerston, Lord

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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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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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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

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Allen, Woody

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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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

36.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

38.

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 pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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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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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Bagnold, Enid

49.

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

Berra, Yogi

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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