Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Guthrie, Arlo

Best Quotes about Death

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

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

John Scalzi

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Allen, Woody

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Bible

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

18.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Belloc, Hilaire

22.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

25.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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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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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

33.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

34.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

35.

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

Bryant, William C.

37.

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

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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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

40.

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

Bible

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

46.

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.

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.