Motivational Quotes

Death

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]

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Best Quotes about Death

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

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Jefferson, Joseph

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

10.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

11.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

12.

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

13.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bible

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

21.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

22.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

24.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

25.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Bible

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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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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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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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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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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

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

Bertolt Brecht

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

48.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

49.

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

Horace

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