Motivational Quotes

Death

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Publilius Syrus

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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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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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Gide, Andre

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

David Assael

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Bhagavad Gita

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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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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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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.