Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Auden, W. H.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Carson, Johnny

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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

15.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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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

18.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

19.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

20.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

21.

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

22.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

23.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

24.

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

Dickinson, Emily

25.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

26.

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

27.

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

Bagnold, Enid

28.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

30.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

31.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

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

Matt Frewer

33.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

34.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

35.

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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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

37.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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46.

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

Fielding, Henry

47.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

49.

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

50.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel