Motivational Quotes

Death

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

- Duffecy, James

Best Quotes about Death

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

11.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

12.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

15.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

Camus, Albert

17.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

18.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

Woody Allen

20.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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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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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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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

31.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

32.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

40.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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

46.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne