Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Johnny Carson

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

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

Epicurus

11.

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

Plato

12.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

13.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

14.

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

Duffecy, James

15.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

16.

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

Lucan, F. L.

17.

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

Fielding, Henry

18.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

20.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

21.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

22.

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

Hermes, Georg

23.

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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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

25.

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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

27.

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

28.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

30.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

32.

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

Greene, Graham

33.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Havner, Vance

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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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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

38.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

40.

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

41.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

42.

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

Randy K. Milholland

43.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

45.

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

49.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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