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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Hook, Sydney

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.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

11.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

12.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

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

David Assael

14.

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 always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

16.

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 life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Heidegger, Martin

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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

26.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Bible

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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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

31.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

32.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

33.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

34.

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

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

Mann, Thomas

36.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

40.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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