Motivational Quotes

Death

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

- Haracourt, Edmond

Best Quotes about Death

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Woody Allen

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Berra, Yogi

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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

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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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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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

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

John Scalzi

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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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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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