Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

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

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Keats, John

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Allen, Woody

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lucan, F. L.

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Ann Radcliffe

31.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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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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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

40.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

41.

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

Picabia, Francis

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.