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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

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

Picabia, Francis

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

11.

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 you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

15.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

16.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

18.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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

20.

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

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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Butler, Samuel

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

26.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

27.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

33.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

34.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

35.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

36.

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

Cocteau, Jean

37.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Palmerston, Lord

39.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

40.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Horace

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

48.

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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.