Motivational Quotes

Death

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

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Best Quotes about Death

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Woody Allen

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Bible

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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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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Mitford, William

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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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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

George Burns

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Horace

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Bronte, Emily

43.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

William Shakespeare