Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Carson, Johnny

10.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

12.

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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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

16.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Luther, Martin

21.

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

Ann Radcliffe

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

27.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Butler, Samuel

30.

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

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

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

34.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

35.

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

Mann, Thomas

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Eliot, George

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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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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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Pamela Ribon

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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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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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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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