Motivational Quotes

Death

To awake from death is to die in peace.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Bayly, Joseph

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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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

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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 should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Oscar Wilde

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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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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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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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Craig Volk

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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 a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Allen, Woody

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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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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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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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.

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.