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

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

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Ken, Thomas

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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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

11.

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

14.

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

15.

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

Berra, Yogi

16.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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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

18.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

19.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

21.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bayly, Joseph

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

26.

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

Eliot, George

27.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

30.

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

31.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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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

33.

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

34.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

35.

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

Horace

37.

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 does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Becht, Ben

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

49.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett