Motivational Quotes

Death

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

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Best Quotes about Death

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Havner, Vance

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

Allen, Woody

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Eliot, George

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Johnny Carson

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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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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Canetti, Elias

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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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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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

George Burns

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Palmerston, Lord

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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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S�ren

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

William Shakespeare

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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]

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Horace

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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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