Motivational Quotes

Death

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Darrow, Clarence

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Greene, Graham

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

Dryden, John

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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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

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

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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]

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

Farber, Dave

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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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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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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 does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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]

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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

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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

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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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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

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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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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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George