Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

10.

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

Carson, Johnny

11.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

12.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

13.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Woody Allen

15.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

16.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

17.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Butler, Samuel

19.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Ken, Thomas

21.

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

Havner, Vance

22.

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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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

25.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

26.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

27.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Bacon, Francis

32.

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

33.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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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 not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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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

39.

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

Hazlitt, William

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

41.

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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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.