Motivational Quotes

Death

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Death

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Horace

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Manilius, Marcus

10.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

11.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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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

14.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

15.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

19.

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

Berra, Yogi

20.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

23.

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

24.

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

Barker, Clive

25.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

26.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

28.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

29.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

30.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

32.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

33.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Butler, Samuel

35.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

37.

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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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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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

40.

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.

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

Epicurus

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

45.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

46.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

47.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Hook, Sydney

49.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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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