Motivational Quotes

Death

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Death

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Stephanie Klein

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

'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

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Barker, Clive

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

Eliot, George

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

Duffecy, James

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

Montgomery, James

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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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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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Young, Edward

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

Plato

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Eliot, George

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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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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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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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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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 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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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Keats, John

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.