Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- David Assael

Best Quotes about Death

'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

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

William Shakespeare

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Bible

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Oscar Wilde

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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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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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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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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

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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 always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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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

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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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Butler, Samuel

28.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

30.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Moody, Dwight L.

32.

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

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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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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Pamela Ribon

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Carson, Johnny

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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