Motivational Quotes

Death

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

- Barker, Clive

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

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

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.

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

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Eliot, George

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

13.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Heidegger, Martin

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

A. Sachs

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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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

32.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Bible

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

38.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Oscar Wilde

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