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

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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.

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

Johnny Carson

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Fielding, Henry

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

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Eliot, George

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Allen, Woody

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

Milton, John

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Craig Volk

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

William Shakespeare

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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