Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Death

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

John Scalzi

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

George Burns

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Bible

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

10.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

11.

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

Chandler, Raymond

12.

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

Allen, Woody

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

16.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

17.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

18.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

19.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

20.

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

Dyer, Wayne

21.

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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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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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

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.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

33.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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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

37.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

38.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Allen, Woody

43.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

44.

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]

Bible

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.