Motivational Quotes

Death

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

13.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bible

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

19.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

William Shakespeare

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

28.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

30.

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

Butler, Samuel

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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 fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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 the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Keats, John

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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

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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

45.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Gide, Andre

48.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.