Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Death

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

Greene, Graham

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Keats, John

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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Becht, Ben

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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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

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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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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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Allen, Woody

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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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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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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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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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

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

Pamela Ribon

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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

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann