Motivational Quotes

Death

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

- Foster, John W.

Best Quotes about Death

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

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Camus, Albert

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

11.

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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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

Barker, Clive

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Farber, Dave

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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

Bible

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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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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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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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Horace

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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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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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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