Motivational Quotes

Death

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Death

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Dryden, John

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

Becht, Ben

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

William Shakespeare

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Plato

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Bible

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

Dyer, Wayne

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Johnny Carson

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

Dryden, John

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

Euripides

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Heidegger, Martin

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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

Marvell, Andrew

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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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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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott