Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Death

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Nepos, Cornelius

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

10.

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

Bright, Grant M.

11.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Havner, Vance

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

Ken, Thomas

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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

Horace

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

29.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

36.

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

Hazlitt, William

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Canetti, Elias

43.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Epicurus

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug