Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Dryden, John

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

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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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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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

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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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

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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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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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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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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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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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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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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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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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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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

Barker, Clive

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

Bacon, Francis

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Oscar Wilde