Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Craig Volk

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

Foster, John W.

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bright, Grant M.

10.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

11.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Havner, Vance

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

Forster, Edward M.

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

Eliot, George

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Horace

30.

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

42.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

44.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Hook, Sydney

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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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.