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

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

A. Sachs

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

Butler, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gide, Andre

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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 are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Duffecy, James

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

21.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Fromm, Erich

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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

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

John Scalzi

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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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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

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

33.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Young, Edward

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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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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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

44.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

George Burns

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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