Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

- Maclaren, Alexander

Best Quotes about Death

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

'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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

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.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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.

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Butler, Samuel

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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 the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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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

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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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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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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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John