Motivational Quotes

Death

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

George Burns

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

10.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

11.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Hook, Sydney

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Gray, Thomas

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Einstein, Albert

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Craig Volk

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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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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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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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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Fromm, Erich

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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

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

Lucan, F. L.

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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry