Motivational Quotes

Death

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

- Bronte, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

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

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

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

Canetti, Elias

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

10.

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

Bhagavad Gita

11.

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

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

13.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Gide, Andre

18.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

27.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

28.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

Frida Kahlo

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

32.

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

Hazlitt, William

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

41.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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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

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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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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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe