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

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

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

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

Young, Edward

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

Lucan, F. L.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Bright, Grant M.

10.

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

Camus, Albert

11.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

12.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

15.

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

Fromm, Erich

16.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

18.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

19.

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

David Assael

20.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

21.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

24.

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.

25.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

26.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

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

Ann Radcliffe

28.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

29.

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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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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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

32.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

33.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

40.

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

Dickinson, Emily

41.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

42.

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

43.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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'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

46.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

A. Sachs

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

Hook, Sydney

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.