Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Death

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

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Heidegger, Martin

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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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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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Gide, Andre

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

Bronte, Emily

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Allen, Woody

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

Beaumont, Francis

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Allen, Woody

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.