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

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Kocher, Gerhard

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Moody, Dwight L.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Bryant, William C.

11.

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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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

15.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

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17.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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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

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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

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29.

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

Bible

30.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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

33.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Becht, Ben

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Gray, Thomas

44.

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

Woody Allen

46.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Beaumont, Francis

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?