Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Barker, Clive

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Camus, Albert

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.

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

A. Sachs

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

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

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

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

Horace

11.

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

12.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Bible

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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

19.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

20.

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

Woody Allen

21.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

23.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

25.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

28.

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

Stephanie Klein

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

32.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

33.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

34.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

36.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

43.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

44.

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

45.

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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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

47.

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

48.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George