Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Thrale, Hester i

Best Quotes about Death

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

Addison, Joseph

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

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Dickinson, Emily

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

10.

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

11.

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.

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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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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

14.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

15.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

16.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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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

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

Eliot, George

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

25.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

27.

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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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

32.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

33.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

34.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

35.

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

Berra, Yogi

36.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Samuel Goldwyn

40.

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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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

La Fontaine, Jean 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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.