Motivational Quotes

Death

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Death

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Bible

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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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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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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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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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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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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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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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'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

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Chandler, Raymond

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada