Motivational Quotes

Death

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

- Frida Kahlo

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bright, Grant M.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

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

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

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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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

William Shakespeare

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Farber, Dave

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

Craig Volk

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Eliot, George

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Bayly, Joseph

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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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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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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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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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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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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.