Motivational Quotes

Death

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Death

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Mitford, William

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Johnny Carson

10.

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

Woody Allen

11.

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

12.

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

15.

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

A. Sachs

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

Horace

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

18.

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

Bagnold, Enid

19.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

20.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

25.

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

26.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

27.

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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

33.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

35.

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

Hermes, Georg

36.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

37.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

38.

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

Craig Volk

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Bible

41.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

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

Matt Frewer

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Greene, Graham