Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- A. Sachs

Best Quotes about Death

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

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

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

Johnny Carson

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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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 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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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Young, Edward

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Macdonald, George

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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.

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Foster, John W.

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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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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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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