Motivational Quotes

Death

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

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

Matt Frewer

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Camus, Albert

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

Allen, Woody

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

10.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

11.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Bible

18.

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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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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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 trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Marvell, Andrew

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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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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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Eliot, George

30.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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.

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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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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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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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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

44.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Bible

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

Young, Edward

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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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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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