Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Edith Sitwell

Best Quotes about Death

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

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

Havner, Vance

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Fromm, Erich

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Stephanie Klein

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Oscar Wilde

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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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

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Edith Sitwell

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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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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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

Gide, Andre

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

Bryant, William C.

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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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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Fielding, Henry

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous