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

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

Keats, John

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Duffecy, James

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Bayly, Joseph

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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

Epicurus

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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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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'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

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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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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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

David Assael

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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

Becht, Ben

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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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

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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