Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Death

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

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

A. Sachs

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

10.

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

Johnny Carson

11.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

12.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

17.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Euripides

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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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

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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

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Landor, Walter Savage

30.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

31.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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 dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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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

41.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

45.

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

Montgomery, James

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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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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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell