Motivational Quotes

Death

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about 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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Keats, John

10.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

11.

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

Hermes, Georg

12.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

13.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

14.

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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Hubbard, Kin

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

20.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

27.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

28.

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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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

30.

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

Euripides

31.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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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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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Allen, Woody

40.

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

41.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

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

45.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Milton, John

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

50.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin