Motivational Quotes

Death

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

- Aaron McGruder

Best Quotes about Death

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

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

William Shakespeare

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

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Hook, Sydney

10.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

11.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Greene, Graham

15.

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

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Fielding, Henry

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

26.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

28.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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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

30.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

31.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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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.

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Sophocles

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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'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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

49.

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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard