Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

Johnny Carson

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Byron, Lord

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

10.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

11.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Chandler, Raymond

15.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

16.

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

Woody Allen

17.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

18.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

20.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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

22.

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

23.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

24.

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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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

26.

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

Fielding, Henry

27.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

28.

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

29.

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

Heidegger, Martin

30.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

36.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

39.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

40.

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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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Horace

43.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

44.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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

48.

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

49.

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.

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas