Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

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

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

10.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

11.

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

Picabia, Francis

12.

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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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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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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Milton, John

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Farber, Dave

35.

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

Bible

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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.

37.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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 Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

40.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

William Shakespeare

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

48.

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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Bacon, Francis