Motivational Quotes

Death

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

- Bronte, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

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

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

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

11.

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

Farber, Dave

12.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

14.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

15.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

16.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

17.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

18.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

19.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

20.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

21.

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

Cocteau, Jean

22.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

23.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

24.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

25.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

26.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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

28.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

29.

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

Matt Frewer

30.

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

Beaumont, Francis

31.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

32.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

33.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

34.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

35.

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

Macdonald, George

36.

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

37.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

38.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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

40.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

41.

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

42.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

43.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

44.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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

Bible

46.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

47.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

48.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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