Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

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

11.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

12.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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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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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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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

30.

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

Oscar Wilde

31.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

33.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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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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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

39.

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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin