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

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Donne, John

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Euripides

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

Hermes, Georg

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

William Shakespeare

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Aaron McGruder

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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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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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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

29.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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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.

39.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Dryden, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Charles II

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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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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

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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