Motivational Quotes

Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Death

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Frida Kahlo

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

Randy K. Milholland

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Young, Edward

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Craig Volk

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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

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

Barker, Clive

28.

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

Montgomery, James

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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

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Dyer, Wayne

43.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

44.

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

Addison, Joseph

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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