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

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Carson, Johnny

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.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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

Samuel Goldwyn

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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

Woody Allen

14.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

15.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

William Shakespeare

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Horace

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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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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

30.

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

Hazlitt, William

31.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

33.

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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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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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Craig Volk

37.

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

Butler, Samuel

38.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

40.

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

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

Bayly, Joseph

42.

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

43.

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

Fromm, Erich

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Craig Volk

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

49.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

La Bruyere, Jean De