Motivational Quotes

Death

He has gone over to the majority.

- Petronius

Best Quotes about Death

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

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Butler, Samuel

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bryant, William C.

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Bible

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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.

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Havner, Vance

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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

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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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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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

John Scalzi

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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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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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.