Motivational Quotes

Death

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Woody Allen

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Stephanie Klein

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Plato

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Butler, Samuel

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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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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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Eliot, George

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Keats, John

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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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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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

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Barker, Clive