Motivational Quotes

Death

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

- Jefferson, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Bronte, Emily

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

10.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

11.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

12.

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

Euripides

13.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

18.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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

Hook, Sydney

28.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

Eliot, George

30.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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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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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Fromm, Erich

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

William Shakespeare

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.