Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bagnold, Enid

Best Quotes about Death

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Bible

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Milton, John

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Matt Frewer

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

Keats, John

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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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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Pamela Ribon

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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

Farber, Dave

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

Aaron McGruder

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

Bible

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

Carson, Johnny

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 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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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

John Scalzi

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Bronte, Emily

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.