Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Dickinson, Emily

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

W. Somerset Maugham

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Carson, Johnny

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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.

10.

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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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Dryden, John

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

Bible

25.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Milton, John

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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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

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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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

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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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Picabia, Francis

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Dryden, John

45.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo