Motivational Quotes

Death

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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Best Quotes about Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Dickinson, Emily

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Woody Allen

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

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Horace

14.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Beaumont, Francis

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

William Shakespeare

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Oscar Wilde

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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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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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

32.

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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

34.

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

Fielding, Henry

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Gide, Andre

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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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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

41.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

42.

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

Johnny Carson

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.