Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- John Scalzi

Best Quotes about Death

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Duffecy, James

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Nepos, Cornelius

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Barker, Clive

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

11.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Eliot, George

13.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

19.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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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

21.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

22.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

Woody Allen

30.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Bible

34.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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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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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

49.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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