Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Farber, Dave

Best Quotes about Death

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Macdonald, George

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Ken, Thomas

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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

11.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

12.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

13.

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

Farber, Dave

14.

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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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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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

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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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

22.

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

Keats, John

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

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

Allen, Woody

25.

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

26.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

33.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

34.

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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Epicurus

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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

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Keats, John

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

44.

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

Bible

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

Eliot, George

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.