Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Death

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Leonardo da Vinci

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

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

Palmerston, Lord

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Picabia, Francis

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

10.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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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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

13.

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

Carson, Johnny

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

15.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

17.

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

Fromm, Erich

18.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

21.

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

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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

25.

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

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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

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

Berra, Yogi

28.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

29.

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

Woody Allen

30.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Pamela Ribon

33.

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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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

35.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Montesquieu, Charles 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

38.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Oscar Wilde

40.

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

Bright, Grant M.

41.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

42.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

43.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

44.

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.

45.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Edith Sitwell

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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

48.

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

49.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

50.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius