Motivational Quotes

Death

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Oscar Wilde

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Bible

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

19.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Bible

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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

John Scalzi

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Milton, John

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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]

Bible

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.