Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Best Quotes about Death

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

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Macdonald, George

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Gide, Andre

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Pamela Ribon

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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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

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

Berra, Yogi

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

James, Alice

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Frida Kahlo

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John