Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- A. Sachs

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bayly, Joseph

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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

Jefferson, Joseph

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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]

Bible

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bright, Grant M.

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

A. Sachs

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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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 like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Johnny Carson

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Macdonald, George

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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.

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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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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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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 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

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

William Shakespeare

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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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

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Allen, Woody

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman