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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Fielding, Henry

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

10.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

11.

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Butler, Samuel

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Moody, Dwight L.

36.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Marvell, Andrew

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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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.