Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Death

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Matt Frewer

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Macarthur, Douglas

10.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

11.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

12.

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

Picabia, Francis

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

18.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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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

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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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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 better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Becht, Ben

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

Plato

29.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

30.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

33.

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 you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Donne, John

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De