Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Death

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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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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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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Plato

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Frost, Robert

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

Duffecy, James

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'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

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Epicurus

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Stephanie Klein

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

42.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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]

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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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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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]

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