Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Farber, Dave

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Carson, Johnny

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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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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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

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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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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Butler, Samuel

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bible

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Horace

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Gide, Andre

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

Browne, Sir Thomas