Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Lucan, F. L.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Dickinson, Emily

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Hubbard, Kin

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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'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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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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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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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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

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