Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Dryden, John

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Auerbach, Red

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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 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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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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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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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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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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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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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

31.

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

Euripides

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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

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Johnny Carson

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

Plato

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.