Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bronte, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Chandler, Raymond

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

10.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

11.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

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

Gray, Thomas

13.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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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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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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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

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

Greene, Graham

21.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

25.

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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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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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

28.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

30.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

35.

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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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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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Matt Frewer

41.

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

Bible

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

Frida Kahlo

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bible

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Fielding, Henry

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett