Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Woody Allen

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

Camus, Albert

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

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

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

10.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

11.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

12.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

13.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

16.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

18.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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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

21.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

24.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

26.

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Duffecy, James

32.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

35.

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

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Palmerston, Lord

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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

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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

41.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Barker, Clive

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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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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

46.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

47.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.