Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

11.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Hazlitt, William

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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]

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14.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

15.

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

Berra, Yogi

16.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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

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

Woody Allen

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Woody Allen

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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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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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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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

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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]

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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.