Motivational Quotes

Death

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

- Farber, Dave

Best Quotes about Death

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Nepos, Cornelius

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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.

11.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

12.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

13.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

15.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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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

18.

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

19.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Bayly, Joseph

21.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Montgomery, James

24.

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

Keats, John

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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

26.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

27.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

28.

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

Luther, Martin

30.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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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

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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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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

35.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Woody Allen

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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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Canetti, Elias

40.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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.

48.

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

Cocteau, Jean

49.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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]

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