Motivational Quotes

Death

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Death

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

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Buffett, Jimmy

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Oscar Wilde

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

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Berra, Yogi

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Farber, Dave

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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