Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bayly, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Chandler, Raymond

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Camus, Albert

10.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

11.

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

12.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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]

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18.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

19.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

22.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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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

24.

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

25.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

26.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

27.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

28.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

29.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

30.

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

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31.

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

32.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

33.

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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34.

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

Gide, Andre

35.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

36.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

41.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

42.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

44.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

45.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

46.

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

Dickinson, Emily

47.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

48.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

49.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales