Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Death

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Camus, Albert

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

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

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Pamela Ribon

10.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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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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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Milton, John

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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 death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Farber, Dave

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Bible

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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

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John