Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

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

Forster, Edward M.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Allen, Woody

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

Carson, Johnny

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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

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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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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Woody Allen

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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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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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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