Motivational Quotes

Death

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

- Duffecy, James

Best Quotes about Death

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Berra, Yogi

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

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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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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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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'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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Bagnold, Enid

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

31.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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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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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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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 woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

49.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Cocteau, Jean