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

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Keats, John

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Carson, Johnny

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Euripides

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Woody Allen

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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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Dhammapada

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

Hook, Sydney

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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

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.