Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Bayly, Joseph

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Oscar Wilde

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Eliot, George

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Beaumont, Francis

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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