Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Death

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

Belloc, Hilaire

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

Duffecy, James

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

Berra, Yogi

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Greene, Graham

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Allen, Woody

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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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Bible

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Marvell, Andrew

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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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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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Epicurus

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

Montgomery, James

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Barker, Clive

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.