Motivational Quotes

Death

I am not the least afraid to die.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Death

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

John Scalzi

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

Barker, Clive

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

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Havner, Vance

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Randy K. Milholland

17.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Donne, John

19.

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

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Plato

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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.

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Palmerston, Lord

30.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

31.

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

Montgomery, James

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

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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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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