Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Barker, Clive

Best Quotes about Death

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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Horace

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Hook, Sydney

12.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

18.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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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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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 am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Berra, Yogi

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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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

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

41.

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

Fielding, Henry

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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

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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

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

Woody Allen

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.