Motivational Quotes

Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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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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

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

Fielding, Henry

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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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

23.

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

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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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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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Bacon, Francis

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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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 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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Allen, Woody