Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Havner, Vance

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

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

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

Manilius, Marcus

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

Horace

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Matt Frewer

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

Barker, Clive

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

25.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Butler, Samuel

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

38.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Pamela Ribon

40.

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

Bible

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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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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 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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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