Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hamilton, Hugh

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

Allen, Woody

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Greene, Graham

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

11.

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

Keats, John

12.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Havner, Vance

14.

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

Johnny Carson

15.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

16.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

17.

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

Chandler, Raymond

18.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

19.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

20.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

21.

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

Hermes, Georg

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

24.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

25.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

26.

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

Epicurus

27.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Mann, Thomas

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

32.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

33.

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

Fielding, Henry

34.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

35.

'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

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Gide, Andre

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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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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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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

41.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Woody Allen

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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]

Bible

44.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

45.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.