Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

A. Sachs

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

Oscar Wilde

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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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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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Johnny Carson

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Mitford, William

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Farber, Dave

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

Plato

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

41.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

42.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Mann, Thomas

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bryant, William C.

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus