Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Keats, John

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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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

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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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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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 woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Edith Sitwell

28.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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

Woody Allen

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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

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bayly, Joseph

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

41.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Manilius, Marcus

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.