Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Young, Edward

Best Quotes about Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

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

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

10.

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

Dyer, Wayne

11.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

13.

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

14.

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

Fielding, Henry

15.

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

Johnny Carson

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Donleavy, J. P.

18.

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

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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

20.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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

29.

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

30.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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

33.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

40.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

William Shakespeare

42.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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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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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Woody Allen

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

William Shakespeare

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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.