Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Jefferson, Joseph

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Macdonald, George

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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

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Woody Allen

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bible

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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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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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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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Aaron McGruder

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Allen, Woody

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