Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Death

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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

11.

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

Bright, Grant M.

12.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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

Palmerston, Lord

16.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Johnny Carson

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

19.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

20.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

21.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

22.

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

Camus, Albert

23.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

24.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

25.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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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

27.

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

Allen, Woody

28.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

29.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

30.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

32.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

33.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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 someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

38.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

40.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.