Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

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

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

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

Eliot, George

11.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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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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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

25.

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

Dryden, John

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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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

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Allen, Woody

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Barker, Clive

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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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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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond