Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

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

Bacon, Francis

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

10.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

12.

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

Bible

13.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

14.

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

Eliot, George

15.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

16.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

17.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

18.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

19.

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

20.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Craig Volk

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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

23.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

25.

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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

28.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

31.

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.

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

Hermes, Georg

34.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

35.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Camus, Albert

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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

39.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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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

42.

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

Darrow, Clarence

43.

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

Carson, Johnny

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

45.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

48.

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

Charles II

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas