Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

George Burns

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

10.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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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

15.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

16.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

17.

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

John Scalzi

18.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

19.

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've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bronte, Emily

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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

24.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

26.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

27.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

30.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Woody Allen

33.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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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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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Cocteau, Jean

39.

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

Johnny Carson

40.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

41.

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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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

43.

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

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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

45.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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

49.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Moody, Dwight L.