Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about 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.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Duffecy, James

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Charles II

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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

11.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

12.

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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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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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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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

16.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Young, Edward

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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

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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

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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.

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

28.

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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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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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

31.

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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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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.

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

36.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

42.

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

Foster, John W.

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

George Burns

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.