Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Jefferson, Joseph

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

10.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

11.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

13.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

14.

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

Randy K. Milholland

15.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

16.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

17.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

18.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Belloc, Hilaire

21.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

22.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

23.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

24.

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

Farber, Dave

25.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

31.

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.

32.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

33.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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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

38.

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

Bible

39.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

42.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Plato

44.

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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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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.