Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hook, Sydney

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

David Assael

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Woody Allen

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Butler, Samuel

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mann, Thomas

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Allen, Woody