Motivational Quotes

Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Death

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Dryden, John

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Bacon, Francis

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Hubbard, Kin

10.

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

Oscar Wilde

11.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

12.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

16.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Publilius Syrus

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

20.

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

Fielding, Henry

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

25.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Bible

30.

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

Bayly, Joseph

31.

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]

Bible

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Havner, Vance

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

40.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

41.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

42.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Manilius, Marcus

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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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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle