Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Death

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

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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.

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

Dickinson, Emily

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Camus, Albert

10.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

11.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

12.

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

Edith Sitwell

13.

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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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

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

16.

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

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

18.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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

20.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

21.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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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

23.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

24.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

25.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

27.

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

Havner, Vance

28.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

Woody Allen

30.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

31.

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

32.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

33.

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

34.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

38.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

39.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

40.

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

Barker, Clive

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

43.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

45.

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

Keats, John

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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

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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An evil life is a kind of death.