Motivational Quotes

Death

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

- Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Best Quotes about Death

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Butler, Samuel

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

14.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

15.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

16.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

17.

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

18.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

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

20.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

21.

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

22.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

24.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

26.

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

Bryant, William C.

27.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

28.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

29.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Keats, John

32.

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

Picabia, Francis

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

34.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

35.

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

Ann Radcliffe

36.

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

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

Bible

39.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

40.

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

41.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

42.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

43.

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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Fosdick, Harry Emerson