Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hamilton, Hugh

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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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

17.

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

Bible

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

Montgomery, James

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

32.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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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

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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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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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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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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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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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Pamela Ribon

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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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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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