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

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

Bronte, Emily

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

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

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

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bible

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

15.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

16.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Hugh Elliott

18.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Montgomery, James

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

32.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Hazlitt, William

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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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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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

40.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Epicurus

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider