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

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

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Aaron McGruder

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

Kocher, Gerhard

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Palmerston, Lord

10.

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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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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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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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

15.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

Cocteau, Jean

17.

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

18.

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

Euripides

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

Havner, Vance

22.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Pamela Ribon

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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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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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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

29.

'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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

33.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

Keats, John

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Milton, John

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Woody Allen