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

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

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bible

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Aaron McGruder

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

John Scalzi

10.

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

11.

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

Epicurus

12.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

13.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

14.

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

15.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

16.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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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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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

23.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

25.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Berra, Yogi

27.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

32.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

33.

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

34.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

35.

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

Addison, Joseph

36.

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

Woody Allen

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

40.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

41.

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

Duffecy, James

42.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Plato

44.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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

46.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

48.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.