Motivational Quotes

Death

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

- Charles II

Best Quotes about Death

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Byron, Lord

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Stephanie Klein

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

11.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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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

14.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

15.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

16.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Allen, Woody

32.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

33.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

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

Euripides

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

41.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Dryden, John

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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.