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

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Berra, Yogi

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Allen, Woody

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Sophocles

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Johnny Carson

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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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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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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 cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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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

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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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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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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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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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

31.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Mitford, William

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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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

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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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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Montgomery, James

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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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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.