Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

'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

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

Johnny Carson

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

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

Bible

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

Gray, Thomas

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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

Heidegger, Martin

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Publilius Syrus

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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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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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

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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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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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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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

41.

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

Matt Frewer

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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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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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