Motivational Quotes

Death

He has gone over to the majority.

- Petronius

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bagnold, Enid

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Ken, Thomas

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Gide, Andre

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Ann Radcliffe

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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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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

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Johnny Carson

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

Publilius Syrus

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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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

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.