Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Death

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

10.

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

11.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

12.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

13.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Berra, Yogi

15.

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

Matt Frewer

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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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

18.

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

Aaron McGruder

19.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

22.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

27.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Manilius, Marcus

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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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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

42.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

43.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Eliot, George

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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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

48.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

49.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord