Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

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

Cocteau, Jean

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Becht, Ben

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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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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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.

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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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

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

Charles II

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Eliot, George

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Berra, Yogi

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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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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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Luther, Martin

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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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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]

Bible

37.

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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

39.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Bronte, Emily

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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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

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Fromm, Erich