Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Death

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

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Becht, Ben

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

11.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

12.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

15.

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

Donne, John

16.

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

17.

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

Bright, Grant M.

18.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

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

Bertolt Brecht

20.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

21.

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

Barker, Clive

22.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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.

24.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

25.

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

26.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Luther, Martin

28.

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

Chandler, Raymond

29.

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

Butler, Samuel

30.

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

Bacon, Francis

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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