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

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

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

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Diderot, Denis

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

Auerbach, Red

11.

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

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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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

15.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Allen, Woody

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

22.

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

Duffecy, James

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Thrale, Hester i

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.