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

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Bible

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

10.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

11.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Johnny Carson

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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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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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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Auerbach, Red

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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