Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

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

Ann Radcliffe

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

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

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

10.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

13.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

15.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

16.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Greene, Graham

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

26.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

28.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

31.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

32.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Moody, Dwight L.

37.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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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

40.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

44.

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

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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

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

A. Sachs

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