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

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

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Johnny Carson

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Butler, Samuel

10.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

11.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Matt Frewer

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Oscar Wilde

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Allen, Woody

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

Carson, Johnny

26.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Horace

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

Pamela Ribon

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Woody Allen