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

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Butler, Samuel

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

10.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

13.

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

Allen, Woody

14.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

24.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

25.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

27.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Frost, Robert

29.

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

Fielding, Henry

30.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

31.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

32.

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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

34.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

36.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

40.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

41.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

46.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid