Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Woody Allen

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

William Shakespeare

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

24.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

25.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Marvell, Andrew

31.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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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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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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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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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Matt Frewer

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Berra, Yogi

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Butler, Samuel

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.