Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

Byron, Lord

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

10.

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

Matt Frewer

11.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

12.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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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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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

16.

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

Pamela Ribon

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

20.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Plato

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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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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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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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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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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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

34.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

44.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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 destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

50.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.