Motivational Quotes

Death

Only the young die good.

- Herford, Oliver

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hubbard, Kin

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Epicurus

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

Mann, Thomas

11.

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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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

16.

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

Bright, Grant M.

17.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

18.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

28.

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

Bible

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

30.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

31.

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

Duffecy, James

32.

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

David Assael

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Lucan, F. L.

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

A. Sachs

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

Eliot, George

42.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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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

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive