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

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Palmerston, Lord

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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'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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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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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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

18.

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

Dryden, John

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

20.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

21.

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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

24.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

25.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Farber, Dave

27.

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

28.

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

29.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

33.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

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

Pamela Ribon

35.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

36.

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

Fielding, Henry

37.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

38.

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

Woody Allen

39.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 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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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

44.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

45.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.