Motivational Quotes

Death

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

- Jefferson, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Frida Kahlo

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Woody Allen

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

11.

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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

14.

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

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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.

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Gide, Andre

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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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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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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

31.

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

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

Havner, Vance

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

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35.

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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

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

Randy K. Milholland

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Ann Radcliffe

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Only the young die good.