Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bayly, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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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

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Eliot, George

33.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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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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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Milton, John

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.