Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Butler, Samuel

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Butler, Samuel

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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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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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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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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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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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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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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.

Epitaph

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

Montgomery, James

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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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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 often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

Horace

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Publilius Syrus

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Foster, John W.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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