Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Death

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Mitford, William

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

Woody Allen

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

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Woody Allen

10.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

Lowell, James Russell

12.

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

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

14.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Hazlitt, William

18.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

19.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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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

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

25.

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

Bryant, William C.

27.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Aaron McGruder

30.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Carson, Johnny

32.

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

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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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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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

38.

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

Plato

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

40.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

41.

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

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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

Craig Volk

45.

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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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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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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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

49.

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

Hermes, Georg