Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bayly, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

Johnny Carson

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Woody Allen

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

George Burns

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.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

11.

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

Milton, John

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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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

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Butler, Samuel

20.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

David Assael

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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

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

Dryden, John

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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

Bayly, Joseph

34.

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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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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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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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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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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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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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 like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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.

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Publilius Syrus

49.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs