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

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Lowell, James Russell

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Oscar Wilde

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

14.

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

Farber, Dave

15.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

16.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

20.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

22.

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

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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

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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

25.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

26.

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

Woody Allen

27.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

30.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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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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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Ann Radcliffe

34.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

35.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Bible

38.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

40.

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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

44.

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

Carson, Johnny

45.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

46.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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.