Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Death

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.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Canetti, Elias

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Becht, Ben

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

10.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

11.

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

Bhagavad Gita

12.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

13.

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

Fielding, Henry

14.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

15.

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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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

17.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

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

Horace

20.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

21.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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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

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

30.

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

Plato

31.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

32.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

33.

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

Bayly, Joseph

34.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

35.

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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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

39.

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

Bryant, William C.

40.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

41.

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

Eliot, George

42.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

43.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

44.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

45.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

46.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Keats, John

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

Havner, Vance

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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

50.

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