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

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

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

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Bryant, William C.

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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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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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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Bible

33.

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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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Thrale, Hester i

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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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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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