Motivational Quotes

Death

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

- Berger, John

Best Quotes about Death

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Charles II

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

Hubbard, Kin

Berger, John

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Plato

11.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Woody Allen

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

21.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

29.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Allen, Woody

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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

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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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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

40.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

41.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

42.

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

Becht, Ben

43.

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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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

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

48.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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