Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the final wake-up call.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

11.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Hoffer, Eric

17.

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

Woody Allen

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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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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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Marvell, Andrew

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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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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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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 not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Greene, Graham

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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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Hermes, Georg

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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

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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