Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Death

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Barker, Clive

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

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

10.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

11.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

12.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

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

Bayly, Joseph

14.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

15.

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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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

17.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

18.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

19.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

20.

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

Darrow, Clarence

21.

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

Eliot, George

22.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Woody Allen

24.

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

25.

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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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

29.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

30.

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

Bacon, Francis

31.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

32.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

33.

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

Ann Radcliffe

34.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

35.

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

36.

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

Carson, Johnny

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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

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

39.

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

Stephanie Klein

40.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

41.

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

A. Sachs

42.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

44.

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

Bagnold, Enid

45.

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

Fromm, Erich

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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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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

48.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

49.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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