Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

Farber, Dave

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

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Jefferson, Joseph

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

11.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

12.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

13.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

17.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

19.

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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

23.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

25.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

27.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Samuel Goldwyn

30.

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

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

32.

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

Carson, Johnny

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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

34.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

38.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

40.

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

Aaron McGruder

41.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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