Motivational Quotes

Death

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

Camus, Albert

12.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

13.

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

Frida Kahlo

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Hazlitt, William

16.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Bhagavad Gita

20.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

21.

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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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

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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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

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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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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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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 art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

40.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Woody Allen

43.

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

44.

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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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

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

49.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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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