Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Byron, Lord

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

Farber, Dave

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

10.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

11.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

12.

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.

13.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

14.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

Butler, Samuel

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

18.

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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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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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.

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

25.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

26.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

27.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

28.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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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

30.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

33.

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

Canetti, Elias

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

36.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Donne, John

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

41.

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

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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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S�ren

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

Fromm, Erich

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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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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Euripides

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?