Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Death

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

Einstein, Albert

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

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

Durrell, Lawrence

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

10.

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

11.

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

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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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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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

16.

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

Barker, Clive

17.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

21.

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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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

25.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

26.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

27.

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

28.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

32.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

33.

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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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

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

Bible

38.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

39.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Havner, Vance

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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

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