Motivational Quotes

Death

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

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Best Quotes about Death

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fromm, Erich

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Aaron McGruder

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Hazlitt, William

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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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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

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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Johnny Carson

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Oscar Wilde

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Bronte, Emily

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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

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.