Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the final wake-up call.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bronte, Emily

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.

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

Hubbard, Kin

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Byron, Lord

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

10.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

20.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

28.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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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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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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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

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

Farber, Dave

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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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 look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

42.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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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

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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

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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46.

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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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

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John