Motivational Quotes

Death

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Death

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Belloc, Hilaire

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Ann Radcliffe

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Gide, Andre

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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

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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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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Plato

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Lucan, F. L.

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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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.

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

Eliot, George

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Butler, Samuel

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

38.

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

Woody Allen

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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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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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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Byron, Lord

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.