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

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

Buffett, Jimmy

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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 a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

10.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

11.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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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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

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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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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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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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Macdonald, George

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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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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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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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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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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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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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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

A. Sachs

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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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 report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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

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An evil life is a kind of death.