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

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

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

Dryden, John

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Mann, Thomas

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Fielding, Henry

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Woody Allen

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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

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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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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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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Euripides

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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

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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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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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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Byron, Lord

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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

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Foster, John W.

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Bronte, Emily

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Oscar Wilde

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein