Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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.

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

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

David Assael

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Marvell, Andrew

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

11.

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

Farber, Dave

12.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Horace

18.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

19.

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

Bronte, Emily

20.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Oscar Wilde

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

25.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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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

28.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Forster, Edward M.

30.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

31.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

32.

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

Bryant, William C.

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

35.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

36.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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

39.

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

Pamela Ribon

40.

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

Eliot, George

42.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

44.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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

Greene, Graham

46.

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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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

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

49.

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

Bacon, Francis

50.

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.