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

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Bible

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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

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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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Bacon, Francis

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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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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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

31.

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

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Foster, John W.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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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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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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