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

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

Bible

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

Woody Allen

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Picabia, Francis

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

20.

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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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

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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

29.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Auerbach, Red

31.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Epicurus

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

Bible

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Hook, Sydney

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

37.

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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.

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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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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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.