Motivational Quotes

Death

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Butler, Samuel

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

Bible

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Plato

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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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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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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Sophocles

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

Pamela Ribon

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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.

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

George Burns

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

Allen, Woody

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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

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

Beaumont, Francis

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Young, Edward

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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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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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