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

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Montgomery, James

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Euripides

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Pamela Ribon

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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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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

32.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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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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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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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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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.

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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia