Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Samuel Goldwyn

Best Quotes about Death

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Gray, Thomas

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

10.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

11.

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

Butler, Samuel

12.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

13.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Eliot, George

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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

17.

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

18.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

19.

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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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Guthrie, Arlo

22.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

23.

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

Gide, Andre

24.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

25.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

26.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

27.

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

Ann Radcliffe

28.

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

Carson, Johnny

29.

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

Fielding, Henry

30.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

34.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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

37.

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

38.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

39.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

40.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Belloc, Hilaire

46.

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

47.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

48.

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

Thrale, Hester i

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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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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