Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Death

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Allen, Woody

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

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

Farber, Dave

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

12.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Eliot, George

15.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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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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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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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Havner, Vance

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Einstein, Albert

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Publilius Syrus

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Woody Allen

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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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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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

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

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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 one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Carson, Johnny