Motivational Quotes

Death

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

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

George Burns

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Montgomery, James

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

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

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

11.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Matt Frewer

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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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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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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