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

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.

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

Luther, Martin

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Palmerston, Lord

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Gide, Andre

10.

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

11.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

12.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

13.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hazlitt, William

15.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

16.

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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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

18.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

19.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

21.

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

22.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

24.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

28.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

30.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

31.

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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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

33.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

34.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

35.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

36.

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

37.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

40.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

41.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

42.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

43.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

44.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Eliot, George

49.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

50.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.