Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Death

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

Allen, Woody

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

11.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

17.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

19.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

20.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

21.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

22.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

23.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

24.

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

Byron, Lord

25.

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

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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.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

29.

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

Bayly, Joseph

30.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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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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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

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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

34.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

35.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Nepos, Cornelius

40.

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

Picabia, Francis

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

Horace

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.