Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Camus, Albert

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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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

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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

A. Sachs

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

Becht, Ben

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Canetti, Elias

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

39.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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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

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Montgomery, James

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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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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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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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

William Shakespeare