Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Johnny Carson

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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.

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

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Woody Allen

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

Frida Kahlo

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

Bible

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Oscar Wilde

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Sophocles

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Bible

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

Eliot, George

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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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

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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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

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

Picabia, Francis

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess