Motivational Quotes

Death

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

- Meredith, George

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Horace

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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

Gide, Andre

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

12.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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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 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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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Auerbach, Red

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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.

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Publilius Syrus

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Horace

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.