Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Butler, Samuel

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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.

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Bible

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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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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Edith Sitwell

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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