Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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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

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

Eliot, George

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Luther, Martin

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Young, Edward

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Woody Allen

33.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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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

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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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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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 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.

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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