Motivational Quotes

Death

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Best Quotes about Death

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.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Edith Sitwell

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

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Dryden, John

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

11.

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

12.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

13.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Becht, Ben

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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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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Greene, Graham

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Montgomery, James

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Bible

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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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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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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

39.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Young, Edward

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

Bible

43.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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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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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.