Motivational Quotes

Death

Only the young die good.

- Herford, Oliver

Best Quotes about Death

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Havner, Vance

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

10.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

11.

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

A. Sachs

12.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

13.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

14.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

15.

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

Becht, Ben

16.

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

Bayly, Joseph

17.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

18.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Bronte, Emily

25.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

Bayly, Joseph

27.

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

Farber, Dave

28.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

29.

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

Carson, Johnny

30.

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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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

32.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

33.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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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

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

36.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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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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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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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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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