Motivational Quotes

Death

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]

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Best Quotes about Death

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

Montgomery, James

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Johnny Carson

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

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 not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

11.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

12.

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

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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

15.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Lucan, F. L.

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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

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

23.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

24.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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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

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

28.

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

Carson, Johnny

29.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Duffecy, James

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

38.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

39.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

40.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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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

43.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Palmerston, Lord

45.

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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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.