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

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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bible

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

10.

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

11.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

12.

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

13.

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

John Scalzi

16.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

17.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Becht, Ben

21.

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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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

24.

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

25.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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

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

A. Sachs

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

31.

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

Publilius Syrus

33.

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

Johnny Carson

34.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

35.

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

Bright, Grant M.

36.

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

Eliot, George

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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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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

39.

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

40.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Milton, John

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.