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 would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Donne, John

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

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

12.

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

Woody Allen

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Mitford, William

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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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

18.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

19.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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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

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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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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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Bible

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Allen, Woody

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Palmerston, Lord

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich