Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Death

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

10.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Horace

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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

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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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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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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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

38.

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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Butler, Samuel

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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