Motivational Quotes

Death

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

11.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

12.

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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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

15.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Havner, Vance

19.

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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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

21.

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

Frida Kahlo

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

24.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

25.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

26.

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

Donne, John

27.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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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

29.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

30.

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.

31.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

32.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

33.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

34.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Camus, Albert

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.