Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Death

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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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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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

Keats, 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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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Edith Sitwell

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Oscar Wilde

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bryant, William C.

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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

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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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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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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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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

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Butler, Samuel