Motivational Quotes

Death

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

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Best Quotes about Death

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

Bright, Grant M.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Allen, Woody

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Luther, Martin

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Palmerston, Lord

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

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32.

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

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

34.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

35.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

37.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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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

43.

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.

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

Eliot, George

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

Hazlitt, William