Motivational Quotes

Death

To die is landing on some distant shore.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Dryden, John

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

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

10.

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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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Berra, Yogi

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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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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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

31.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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.

33.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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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

39.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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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

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?