Motivational Quotes

Death

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

- KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Best Quotes about Death

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

Mitford, William

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

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 is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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

29.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Forster, Edward M.

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

William Shakespeare

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

Eliot, George

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

Dryden, John

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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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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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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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