Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Best Quotes about Death

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Butler, Samuel

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Lee, Nathaniel

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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

Eliot, George

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

Horace

10.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

11.

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

Ken, Thomas

12.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

13.

'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

14.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

Barker, Clive

16.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

17.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

18.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

19.

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

Oscar Wilde

22.

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

Forster, Edward M.

23.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

25.

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

Craig Volk

26.

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

Montgomery, James

27.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

28.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

29.

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

Frost, Robert

30.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

31.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

32.

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

33.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

34.

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

Epicurus

36.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

37.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.

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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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

40.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

41.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

42.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Horace

44.

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

45.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

46.

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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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

48.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

49.

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

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

Randy K. Milholland