Motivational Quotes

Death

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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Best Quotes about Death

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

Havner, Vance

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Hoffer, Eric

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

19.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Woody Allen

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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

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bayly, Joseph

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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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.

39.

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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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 want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Stephanie Klein

44.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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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

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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

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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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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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