Motivational Quotes

Death

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hook, Sydney

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

10.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

11.

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

12.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

13.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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

Bayly, Joseph

16.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

17.

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

Plato

18.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

20.

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

21.

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

Bagnold, Enid

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Ken, Thomas

24.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

25.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

26.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

27.

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

28.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

29.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

30.

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

Allen, Woody

31.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

32.

'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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

36.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

37.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

38.

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

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lucan, F. L.

44.

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

45.

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

Butler, Samuel

46.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

47.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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