Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Carson, Johnny

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Macarthur, Douglas

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Publilius Syrus

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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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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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Camus, Albert

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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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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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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 die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

37.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Keats, John

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Bible

42.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

43.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

47.

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

Bible

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.