Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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]

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

10.

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

Randy K. Milholland

11.

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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Foster, John W.

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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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

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Woody Allen

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

Donne, John

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

31.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

32.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Frida Kahlo

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.