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

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Randy K. Milholland

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Matt Frewer

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

10.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

11.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Aaron McGruder

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

17.

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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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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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

20.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Fielding, Henry

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

32.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

33.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

34.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

35.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

40.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. 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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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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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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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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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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