Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Oscar Wilde

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

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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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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

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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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Fielding, Henry

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Keats, John

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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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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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'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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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

39.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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