Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Death

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

Farber, Dave

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

Johnny Carson

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bronte, Emily

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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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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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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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 a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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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

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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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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

31.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

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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

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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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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Horace

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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

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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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.

Diderot, Denis

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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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