Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Best Quotes about Death

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Dryden, John

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

10.

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

11.

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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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

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

17.

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

Randy K. Milholland

18.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

19.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

29.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

30.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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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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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

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Charles II

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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

Hubbard, Kin

46.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Horace

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

Bible

49.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily