Motivational Quotes

Death

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

- John Scalzi

Best Quotes about Death

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Buffett, Jimmy

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Woody Allen

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

10.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

11.

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

12.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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

14.

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

Montgomery, James

15.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

17.

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

18.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

19.

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

Publilius Syrus

20.

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

Thrale, Hester i

21.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

22.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

23.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

24.

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

Woody Allen

25.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

27.

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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

30.

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

George Burns

31.

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

Bryant, William C.

32.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

36.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

38.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

41.

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

Berra, Yogi

42.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

43.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag