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

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

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

Aaron McGruder

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

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

Berra, Yogi

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

10.

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

11.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

12.

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

13.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

14.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

20.

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

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

Duffecy, James

22.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

23.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

24.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

Hook, Sydney

27.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

30.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

31.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

32.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

33.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

34.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

36.

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

37.

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.

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

Bayly, Joseph

39.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

40.

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

Keats, John

41.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

44.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Gray, Thomas

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

48.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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