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

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bhagavad Gita

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Duffecy, James

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Bacon, Francis

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Oscar Wilde

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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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

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Craig Volk

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Bible

33.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dryden, John

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Barker, Clive

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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 be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Marvell, Andrew

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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