Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

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

Johnny Carson

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Bible

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

Craig Volk

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Farber, Dave

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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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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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

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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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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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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

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

Allen, Woody

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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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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Havner, Vance

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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

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

Palmerston, Lord

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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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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.