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

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

George Burns

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Fielding, Henry

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

10.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

11.

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

Horace

12.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

13.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

14.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

16.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

17.

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

18.

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

Bright, Grant M.

19.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

20.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

21.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

22.

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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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.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

25.

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

Carson, Johnny

26.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Horace

30.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

31.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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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

33.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

34.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

35.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

36.

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.

37.

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

Oscar Wilde

38.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

40.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

41.

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

42.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

44.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

47.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

48.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

49.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

50.

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