Motivational Quotes

Death

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Gide, Andre

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

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.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Auerbach, Red

10.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

12.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

16.

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

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

18.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

24.

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

Craig Volk

25.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

William Shakespeare

30.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Allen, Woody

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

43.

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

Johnny Carson

44.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

45.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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.