Motivational Quotes

Death

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Death

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Horace

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

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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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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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

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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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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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Woody Allen

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

35.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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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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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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