Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

11.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

12.

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Fromm, Erich

15.

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

Bayly, Joseph

16.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

17.

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

Dickinson, Emily

18.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Buffett, Jimmy

25.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

26.

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

30.

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

Allen, Woody

31.

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

Euripides

32.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

33.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

34.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

35.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Dyer, Wayne

38.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

40.

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

Barker, Clive

41.

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

42.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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

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

Horace

49.

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

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

Bacon, Francis