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

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

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

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

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

10.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

11.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

12.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

13.

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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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

16.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

17.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

18.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

19.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

20.

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

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

23.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

24.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

26.

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

27.

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

Craig Volk

28.

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

Auerbach, Red

29.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Addison, Joseph

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

33.

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.

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

35.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

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

Johnny Carson

37.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

39.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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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

41.

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

Craig Volk

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

43.

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

Cocteau, Jean

44.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

50.

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