Motivational Quotes

Death

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

- Jonathan Swift

Best Quotes about Death

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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

Carson, Johnny

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

10.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

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

Donne, John

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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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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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

Dryden, John

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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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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Manilius, Marcus

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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

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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 is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Craig Volk

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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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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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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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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

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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