Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Dryden, John

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

Bible

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

12.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

13.

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

18.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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

24.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

27.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Horace

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Keats, John

31.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Milton, John

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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

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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

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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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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

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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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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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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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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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Havner, Vance