Motivational Quotes

Death

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Death

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Hook, Sydney

10.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

11.

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

Duffecy, James

13.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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

Farber, Dave

15.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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

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'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

23.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Publilius Syrus

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

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

Pamela Ribon

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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

28.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

30.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

32.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

34.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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

37.

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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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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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

41.

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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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Berra, Yogi

44.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Bhagavad Gita

47.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein