Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

- Gilmore, Gary Mark

Best Quotes about Death

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Eliot, George

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

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

Stephanie Klein

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

12.

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

Keats, John

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

Horace

14.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

16.

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

Gide, Andre

18.

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

Pamela Ribon

19.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

20.

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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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

28.

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

Fielding, Henry

30.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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