Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Bible

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Eliot, George

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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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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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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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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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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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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 fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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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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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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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.